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

[Ihor Radchenko]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> In any case, explained or not, this kind of convention will (1) force
>> people to expose their email in the thread
>
> Which is a problem because?

... a number of people are concerned about privacy and prefer to not
expose their emails.

>> (2) create an extra obstacle to participate
>
> A justified and insignificant one, however.

Lets agree to disagree here.

>> (3) still gives no 100% guarantee that future discussion
>> will be CCed.
>
> How is this distinct from omitting the list itself from the carbon copy
> list?  People (or MUAs) don't intentionally remove only individuals from
> the carbon copy list, they either preserve it intact or delete
> _everyone_, which includes the list and whatever message forwarding
> system it might use.
>
> Read only access to the list through a more reasonable system is
> afforded through Gmane, and we could always start gnu.emacs.devel once
> the FSF repairs the net news gateway.

Read-only access is precisely what I am talking about. But not for the
whole list - just for a single thread.

News gateway is much harder to setup and severely limits the available
MUA. For example, I have never managed to do it and instead relying on
emails.

>> May you elaborate?
>
> Any such forwarding system, if it does materialize, will compel us to
> account for its existence and limitations before posting.  Or else it
> will be absolutely meaningless.

Sorry, but I still don't understand. All the mailing list emails are
public already. How will the fact that some people read the same public
emails anonymously not from lists.gnu.org web interface, but from their
email client change anything?

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