Exciting indeed, this is seriously the most participation I've seen on any thread or subject in all my time on this mailing list! (ok it's only been a couple of years...) This might actually be my first reply to this mailing list :)
I don't know how a reply-to setting "forces" participation in any way but so that the argument makes more sense to me I suggest we rename it to "reply-or-...@python.org". Eleni On 8 Jan 2013, at 23:10, Anand Kumria <akum...@acm.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Of course we smelt a rat. > > As soon as that comment came out, I gave up on even reading the > discourse that followed. > > Fundamentally many of the commentators do not realise that forcing > people to participate - i.e. forcing reply-to to be public - (imagine > be *required* to attend *every* Python-related meetup in London; no > matter what) simply does not work. > > No technical means to enforce / create a community has worked. > > Enough people elaborated on the (many) technical pitfalls of having > reply-to, so I won't, the community one is often overlooked. > > Anand > > > On 8 January 2013 19:02, Jonathan Hartley <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: >> On 03/01/2013 23:19, Michael Foord wrote: >> >>>>>> FWIW on lists where reply-to goes to the individual I *very* >>>>>> regularly see messages accidentally sent only to the original sender >>>>>> and not to the list. >> >> >> Does anyone else smell a rat? How would he know???? Is Mr Foord READING ALL >> OUR EMAILS!?!?!?! >> >> Thank you all for providing a stream of giggles to brighten my day. >> >> -- >> Jonathan Hartley tart...@tartley.com http://tartley.com >> Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > > > -- > “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
