On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:03 PM, moron@industrial.org wrote:
To enable custom headers for each message at least partially destroys the intent of a mailing list - efficient delivery of messages.
Sorry, I don't buy this argument. If you have two choices: use more CPU time and network, or improve the end-user experience, choosing "less work for the computer" is almost always the wrong answer.
Instead of injecting one message to hundreds of recipients, you would be injecting hundreds of unique messages.
Yes, you are. And fortunately, it's not the 70's any more, and the resource limitations that caused those design decisions are gone. We aren't on 9600 baud dialups any more, for instance, or trying to run large mailing list on 286 class machines. well, I'm sure there are a few of those still out there, but that's no reason to hobble the rest of the universe with designs aimed at the last century.