From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:32:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87fxolj1vc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87fxoyifjg.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87r688s3af.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220153534 29670 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2008 03:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15765@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Aug 31 05:33:08 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 1KZdgZ-000128-L6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:33:07 +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 1KZdeo-0002bm-Tu; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:31:18 -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 1KZden-0002bZ-8f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KZdek-0006Dg-PL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KZdem-0002iK-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:31:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 218.231.177.116.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.177.116] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1KZdeg-0007V6-KK; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:31:10 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 70CE2DF4F; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:32:23 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87r688s3af.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:12:24 +0200") Original-Lines: 23 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67314 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn 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 -- Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.