[ale] $&*@ing gmail

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

In general I think that the current reply-to-list setup is just fine. I
think that it promotes community discussion. Just like you wouldn't join
an IRC channel and then private start private messaging people with
questions.

But, when it comes to something like this subject (gmail), I think that
it should be between the two parties only. I especially don't think it
deserves multiple threads. Today alone, discounting this one, there are
nine threads about it; albeit, most of those are created by clients
breaking previous threads. At least, that is what I see at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.ale .

I certainly did not start this thread to bring up the heated reply-to
discussion. I was merely trying to illustrate that this list has turned
from somewhat relative Linux discussion to "who has gmail?" over the
past couple weeks.

One other thing. I pointed out the wiki, and created the topic,
_because_ it gets used so little. All it takes is a little prodding and
it can become a more valuable resource.

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:06:42AM -0400, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "attriel" == attriel  <attriel at d20boards.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
>     >> How about we just REPLY TO THE PERSON OFFERING THE INVITE
>     >> INSTEAD OF THE WHOLE FRIGGIN LIST?!!!
> 
>     attriel> Oh no.  Are we going to end up with the whole "reply-to"
>     attriel> discussion now?
> 
> Of course not.  Why when given an excelent example of why it's a brain
> dead setup would anyone want to disagree with it . . .
> 
> *cough*
> 
> Sorry, was that out loud?  :)
> 
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