Re: [Gaim-devel] [Gaim-commits] A quick poll about Gaim mailing list

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:19:39PM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Sorry, I wrote the thing in like 15 minutes.  So far 16 people prefer the full
> > header, 14 people prefer no header and 1 person prefers the short header.
> 
> I don't see how this is up for a vote.  There is an obvious and
> technically correct solution to this, which is to elide such headers
> on all mailing lists, and allow those who want them to insert them.
> The URL that Sean posted explains this clearly.
> 
> Ethan
> 

In that its a common practice, even if a less than correct.  In that the
argument you and Sean posted is wrong in at least one respect.

There are any number of people who could and would contribute useful and
even correct patches to gaim, but who could be turned off by our holding
to this practice, even though correct.  While yes this ignorance,
willful or otherwise, is less than ideal, it is also beyond our ability
to cure, at least to cure in every case.

Some of us are more concerned with finding the most pragmatic solution
than with the technically most correct one.  The poll would help
determine this.

While I tend to be persuaded by the arguments that you and Sean have
found and advanced, I really don't care.  I'm just as capable as using
procmail to remove the tags as it is possible to use procmail to add
them, if they did bother me, which they mostly don't.

If it looks like we will turn off more people from helping with gaim
than our correctness would attract, then some of us would seriously
consider putting up with the minor incorrectness.

luke