On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:35:00 +0200 Kjetil Torgrim Homme
<kjetilho@ifi.uio.no> said:
>It still makes sense when one of the correspondents are on the digest.
Well, that's your opinion. Personally, when I subscribe to a digest, I
only want to get mail from that list once a day. I don't want to get
every single reply to my post, which as you know after 2-3 days means
people are talking about something completely different and STILL sending
me a copy because they're too lazy or too incompetent or don't care. The
IETF list is an excellent example, every time I post something it takes
about 2 weeks before I stop getting private replies about something
totally different.
>A good portion of the mailing lists out there are based on Sendmail
>aliases, and I don't think that will change much. Speaking as a
>postmaster, I don't care if the lists I host take an hour until they
>reach the last recipient, and I won't install special software to fix
>it.
That's your prerogative. However, I can guarantee that users will think
otherwise. There are already a number of sites where the postmaster
generally agrees with you, but the users felt otherwise, and they bought
their own machine (I mean with a grant or their department's money - it
is now cheap enough to be within their reach). And in some cases the
postmaster changed his mind very quickly and did exactly the same a few
months later, after the other departments threatened to do the same
instead of paying the computer department for mail services.
Eric
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