Inappropriate use of private meetings & lists. (reply to).

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:47 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
> 1. olpc games sets the reply-to

Sounds like it should get fixed...

> 2. BTW this recommendation does not make my point wrong (eg that the 
> current setting makes harder to keep conversations on the devel list)

And screws many people who use reply to to get their mail sent back to
their main mailbox....
                              - Jim


> 
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Here's mailman's recommendation about replyto...
> >
> > http://lists.laptop.org/admin/devel/?VARHELP=general/reply_goes_to_list
> >                      - Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:19 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
> >   
> >>> There are top-down decisions being made by a few people that drive the 
> >>> direction of OLPC. These decisions are not waiting for consensus, and 
> >>> they are made by a small number of people. I don't believe this is 
> >>> going to change (at least not in the short term).
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> I, personally, do not care who makes decisions, as long as he is smart 
> >> and makes "good" decisions. The problem is that usually I am not 
> >> notified of such decisions.
> >>
> >> For example, the move from 32 bit to 16 bit frame buffer just happened 
> >> silently. One day people debated its merits on this list without 
> >> reaching any conclusions. Some months later it was 16 bit. Nobody told it.
> >>
> >> A similar thing is that I am trying to get an answer to the question 
> >> whether the XO image will be moved to LZO compression or not when we 
> >> will be rebased to F9. The reason is that I am currently tuning the LZO 
> >> decompression code and want to know whether this effort is moot or not. 
> >> Most likely this was already decided by somebody, and frankly I am not 
> >> qualified enough to debate this decision, I just want to know what it is.
> >>
> >> Note that I had to reply all to this message and then delete all 
> >> recipients and then replace CC devel with TO devel. The reason is that 
> >> this devel list is not set up that the reply-to would be the devel list, 
> >> and if I do not delete others then the conversation often slips outside 
> >> devel. See, even the main mailing list is configured wrong.
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