Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> It is indeed a (very long-standing) convention, with a pretty good
>> justification -- when you're not _sure_ the other person reads the
>> list, it's better to be safe than sorry.  And you can't be sure, in
>> general.
>
> 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.

If Gnus happens to have more information about a particular mailing
list, of course it could try to be more clever in that case.

-Miles

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