On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:09:22PM EDT, Lee Winter wrote: > > [..] > >> This is an excellent example of why there should not be a globally >> defined policy denying the utility of potentially useful features. > > No global policy..? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Spending too much time looking in the mirror? Almost everything you write was flat-out wrong. And couched in an argumentative tone that appears to invite a flaming response. You would probably enjoy such a response because it would make you feel superior. Thing is, I'm a sadist, so it is my intention to deny you that pleasure. Please suffer my neglect of your need in silence. The fact that some people fear inadvertent embarassment does not justify the administrative imposition of rules to "protect" all users by eliminating options they would reasonably expect to have available. Are you going to bounce message due to bad spelling? Or bad grammar? They are also embarassing and far more frequent. Just how far should protecting the members of the community from their own errors go? Personally, I neither need nor want such protection. If you and others like you want such protection you should implement it at your end and not impose your prejudices upon the other members of the community. One thing you mentioned, or at least implied, is certainly worthwhile, which is the fact the the responsibility for handling messaging lies with the writer, not matter how stupid and short-sighted the policies of the list admins might be and no matter how malformed the mail reader software might be. So I will happily comply with the policies of this list and send to "all" until sanity in the form of a sensible alternative evolves. After all, if your email software is too stupid to suppress duplicate messages, perhaps you should upgrade to a more reader-friendly application instead of forcing everyojne else to change their behavior to accomodate to the defects in your mail handling app. Duplicatively, Lee Winter NP Engineering Nashua, New Hampshire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
