--On 24 March 2008 18:07:29 -0700 Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:
Sorry, as stated your proposal sounds either naive or insane. No insult intended.
Please, think harder about what you write to the list. If you left an insult in there that you were aware of, then you *are* intentionally insulting people.
I'm on your side in theory. I've been asking various mailing list developers to address this problem for years, with no progress anywhere. But, I've lost patience with your apparent aggression here.
I'm pleased to see Mailman getting some development attention after what appears to have been quite a long break. I know, though, that the developers have been putting a lot of work in behind the scenes.
I do want to see backscatter addressed - if spam and backscatter aren't indicative of security problems then I don't know what would be. I also want to see huge usability improvements.
But, to see all of those things, we can't go trying to squeeze big changes into small updates. And I don't think that insulting volunteer developers is going to prove very productive.
-- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148