Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Po Lu]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> This is not about etiquette. This is about personal feelings. Whether
> acceptable for you or not, it is something very real and affects human
> behaviour.

We can't take everyone's misgivings at face value.  There is nothing
wrong with requesting to be copied in to a thread; if someone hestiates
to do so, we can explain that there is nothing to fear.  If he is still
hesitant thereafter, we won't be obliged to further accommodate him.

> And what do you mean by "sign up for more trouble"? What I essentially
> asked for - "It would be nice if anyone can subscribe to an individual
> thread anonymously." I am not 100% sure why mailing list software does
> not have such feature, but the fact that web forges do have it is one of
> the objective reasons why they are viewed as more comfortable option.

Introducing such a capability to the Emacs lists will compel us to bear
two different types of threads in mind, and that constitutes trouble.