On Tuesday 14 August 2007 12:26:41 Arnold Krille wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. August 2007 schrieb Matthias Schönborn: > > Anyway, I don't understand why some people make such a fuzz about it. Is > > it so hard to get used to the new settings, even if it's the standard > > setting among mailinglists? > > Its not hard for pros like you and me. But its hard for beginners starting > with the whole linux and audio and email-lists -things. And they don't get > the replyToList-thing. Never (I know that all generalizations are false). On all the beginners-lists I am/was > subscribed to... Why should we make it hard for them (and us having to > reply/forward their answers to the list)? > I know that all the sane emailers will do it right (kmail can recognize > when a folder contains a mailinglist and the normal replyTo will then do > the right thing) but if we really want to be open to new folks exploring > the free software world in all its beauty we should really lower the stakes > and introduce them to proper-rfc-compliant-lists only when reaching higher > levels (like *-dev). Thanks for the compliment, but I don't consider myself as a pro, especially because this is the first email list I ever subscribed to and I subscribed just six weeks ago. So I could hardly be more of a Newbie to lists - and repeating myself, I found it confusing that hitting the replybutton would reply to the whole list! Though I must admit that I found the reply-to-list-button just a few days ago, and additionally, that I use KMail and let it do the "work" (and thus had surely made a mistake). But it's mostly by mistakes that you learn (though for me it's that I learned about it because of the discussions ;-) ). > And my comment yesterday was the first I did about the whole discussion and > was triggered by one outlook-user who can really read multipart-emails > (outlooks fault) and two "private" answers that belonged to the list. > > I don't really care if replyToMunging gets reactivated for this list or > not. If not I will probably stop getting "private" answers back on the > list. The advantage: The archives will be incomplete and may miss the > solutions to the problems. And beginners will wonder why only one guy > answers to the second mail, even more so if he doesn't come to a > conclusion. And others will use google and find their problem in our lists > archive but not the solution (I hate it when that happens to me!), I surely agree with that one, happened to me too! > because > all the solving went off-list. Yes, I could always try to get the > discussions back on the list, but I am lazy and I want to talk/discuss > things, not deal with technical stuff that should just work. Maybe that > qualifies me foe getting a mac, I don't know, if they weren't so pricey I > would get one... Though you surely don't have to forward every private message to the list, I think it's not too hard to write a quick note of the solution when there's finally one. Regards, Matthias _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
