Patrick O'Callaghan venit, vidit, dixit 04.05.2010 02:07: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 15:21 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: >>> BTW, one of the reasons to avoid cross-posting is that it makes it >> very >>> hard to keep the threads straight. Some people reply on one list, >> some >>> on another. For those of us who aren't on both, this quickly becomes >>> unmanageable. >> >> If it's pertinent to both lists, it should go to both lists. If your >> mail client cant' properly thread them that's something you should >> fix. It works just fine with kmail over here. But labelling it as >> somemone else's mistake is kinda un-called-for, imo. > > 1) I didn't invent the widely-applied netiquette rule about > cross-posting. In fact it's also part of the Guidelines document that > applies to all the Fedora lists, see > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Do_not_Cross_Post > > 2) I understand that most rules have exceptions, and it's up to the > poster to decide what to do. (For example, Kevin didn't post his message > to the main Fedora users list, just to dev and kde, even though it would > seem pretty much equally relevant to all three.) > > 3) If your mail client handles this situation, can I assume you are not > filtering the various lists into separate folders, as many people do? If > not, can you explain how you set up your MUA to handle this? > > 4) The cross-posting issue wasn't even the central point of my message, > whuch was that Kevin said he'd cross-posted when in fact as far as I can > see he hadn't. Perhaps the mail server had a hiccup, perhaps his MUA > failed in some way, perhaps he mis-remembered what he'd done, but that's > what caused the confusion in the first place. Even with all the MUA > support imaginable, nothing can be done if the messages aren't being > received. Why do you think it uncalled-for to label that a mistake? Gmane shows it both in kde and devel. So, if there's a mistake, it's not on Kevin's sending side. Replying to it (through gmane) I got a denied from devel but not from kde, I guess it requires subscription. Michael
