[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 04.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we That's true. The problem, however, is that better solutions are next to non-existant - I sure don't consider something that only works for a very small number of mail clients a "solution". At least not while discussing how to solve a current problem - it does help when designing new software :-) > Why do we have a policy about CC's? Because they are evil. There seems to be fairly broad consensus on that. > I like CC's; they genrally > propogate to me faster. Which easily leads (for me) to actually missing them - because of duplicate suppression, they do not show up where they are expected (with the mailing list). > Where is this policy stated? (I just looked > into debian-policy, and /usr/doc/debian/mailing-list.txt, with no > success). If indeed there is such a policy, it has been hidden quite > succesfully. (I certainly don't remember this being ratified). I think I do remember it; Lars asked for no CCs on -devel, someone else asked for please to have CCs, and the resulting discussion (IIRC) had that result. Probably people forgot to write it down. > The people with sad mail software and lazy fingers are > penalizing the people with low bandwidth. Don't break conforming > software to cater to broken software. Don't break the setup for 90% to cater to 10%. I think you are in the 10% group, here. I do agree that reply-to isn't the optimal solution. Not doing anything is very suboptimal, as well, though. The DRUMS group (doing updates to RFC 821/822) is trying to find a solution to this, but we're not there yet - and then software needs to be adapted to the new standards. I don't expect a serious installed base of anything new before 1999. (It probably will happen fast, because people like Netscape are involved in DRUMS - I expect the participants cover a large part of the market.) One serious CC: problem is that you don't know which of these CC:s are on the list (so don't need and usually don't want a CC:), and which aren't (so need a CC: to receive anything at all). Happens all the time with upstream authors. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
