From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67316 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:06:56 +0200 Message-ID: <871w04mjjj.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87fxoyifjg.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87r688s3af.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87fxolj1vc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220252994 7446 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2008 07:09:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , ding@gnus.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15767@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 01 09:10:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ka3Yg-0006w8-Q6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ka3X0-0007eu-1v; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ka3Wy-0007ef-UB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ka3Wu-0002of-PY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ka3Ww-00066j-00 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:08:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1117866367; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:08:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13844-04; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:08:50 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (dhcp188.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.188]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0027866314; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:08:50 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87fxolj1vc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:32:23 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67316 Archived-At: Miles Bader 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