From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T08:26:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do my posts appear twice?

On Jun 16, 2006, at 0:18, Greg Donald wrote:

>> If you don't like the default behavior of the list, change it.   
>> But it's
>> a perfectly reasonable way for a mailing list to behave,
>
> If it makes people complain more than a couple of times then it's a
> bad default setting.

It's only bad if it's worse than the alternative, which (as  
mentioned) is a number of people posting "did my mail get through?"   
Not a complaint, perhaps, but definitely symptomatic of a problem.   
Unless you have some hard data on how one problem is worse than the  
other, there's no reason to change the default.


>   It doesn't matter that people can change it,
> multiple questions/complaints should have already made it evident a
> change was needed.  If the server admins disagree then they are only
> going to hear more questions and complaints ongoing.

If there's one thing you learn being an admin or moderator of  
anything it's that questions and complaints are always ongoing, no  
matter what you do.

Uunless someone comes along with some hard data on the rate of "I get  
duplicates" compared to "did my message get through?" on similar- 
volume lists with different settings, then there's little real reason  
to change anything.

matthew smillie.