Re: OFFTOPIC Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive URL in postings (2.1b3)
No, it's not. Not a bit. One of the things my organization does is manage the email systems for our corporation (not a small one). and we set policy on email clients quite simply: "here are the ones we support. If you use something else, we wish you luck. If it doesn't work right, we hope you can fix it".
That's an excellent strategy for managing support staff's workload, and it's a strategy we use at my job as well. It's a terrible strategy to get a software project taken seriously around the world. Imagine if Python could only build on HP/UX, IRIX, and SCO Unix, using a particular version of GCC that had the quirks that Guido liked and didn't have the quirks he didn't like. Would anybody be using it?
-j.
PS - Admittedly, Mailman is *already* taken seriously around the world. But I don't think it has sufficient monopoly power yet that it can impose this sort of a paradigm shift on email. Actually, it's going to have a hard time doing that as long as anybody also gets non-mailing-list-mail. If it were a newsreader or a weblogging system, it would have a better chance, because people don't see their news or their blogs alongside their personal email, so it's not going to bother them as much if the semantics are different.
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Jay Sekora