"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <c...@debian.org> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read > > messages from that list, I don't think we can expect software to > > automatically figure out that they would nevertheless like to > > receive those messages. > […]
> But you fail also on pragmatic level: > a lot of discussions are stopped because of lack of CC: > Take debian-legal. > > How a non-subscriber can follow discussion? > How he can reply to a message (with correct headers? […] That's covered by the part you also quoted: > > Either the sender needs to arrange to get those messages themselves > > (by subscribing to the list), or they will need to rely on people > > manually doing what the mailing list could do for them (sending > > replies individually to them). My point is we can't expect this case to be automatically detected. If people can't use the automatic means for following a discussion (and, you rightly point out, sometimes that's not a feasible option), they must then rely on manual means. -- \ “Please leave your values at the front desk.” —hotel, Paris | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
