[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Tue Jun 14 16:22:42 CEST 2011

On 06/14/2011 10:03 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 06/14/2011 09:38 AM, Lee Forest wrote:
+>>
+>> And keeping one golden rule of software development in mind, don't
+>> let your system do redundant tasks. Look how many times a
+>> conversation is repeated throughout its life time in a mailing list.
+>> Thats alot of redundant data using up server traffic.
+>>
+> That's not caused by an ML, it's caused by people being lazy and
+> quoting the entire message to which they're replying, which is a
+> breach of netiquette.  As is top-posting :-)
+Android mail does that by default. But that just proves my other point.
+Half the time these replies complaining about top posting, lazyness, or
+'netiquette' are being shot back instead of useful respones. In a forum
+this is much less of a problem. Most forums are only setup to send just
+your own reply to the topic, and quoting a specific post instead of the
+whole thread. Thus not letting the user quote that much at a time by
+default. Less redundancy by design, and we can move past the
+'netiquette' complaints and focus on the topics more. And in the process
+actually modernize this communication system in a way that moves AWAY
+from mailboxes bombed with redundancy. Don't count on the users to use
+'netiquette' because its been long proven that 'common sense is not all
+that common', and its by definition 'insane' to expect everyone to use
+it. Because it will always be a problem with some new users who are new
+to mailing lists.
+