Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Miles,

>> Well, ok.  Sometimes that may be correct.  But most mailing lists
>> allow posting only by subscribers, so there's no reason to handle the
>> issue that the original poster doesn't read the list.
>
> Unless you can show that is true of _all_ mailing lists, or at least
> something like 99% (and though subscriber-only lists are pretty common
> these days, I suspect you can't -- indeed many GNU lists allow posting
> by non-subscribers), then there certainly is a reason to use the safer
> default.

No no, I won't vote for changing the default, I just wanted to to know
the reason for that.  And thanks to your clear explanation I'm now
enlightened. ;-)

Bye,
Tassilo