25 Feb
2002
25 Feb
'02
7:52 p.m.
"John" == John Morton jwm@plain.co.nz writes:
John> I find this feature is handy for small, private lists.
Sure. I have a couple that could be handled that way, but we just defaulted them all off. We post the names and addresses (they're basically lists of project staff) on the home page, with mailtos and fancy formatting, instead. When the staff forget who handles what, they use that interface, just like the clients do. (It's voluntary, they are warned about harvesting; nobody has refused yet.)
John> I'd rather it was still around and just disabled by default
John> with warning stickers all over it than we dumb down mailman
To me, it's not really an issue of dumbing down. It would be easy enough to do this with a separate app, so the question is "should a deprecated feature continue to encruft MM?"
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