[Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

[Andrzej Kasperowicz]

> No.  The critical point is "large enough".  If their need is large
> enough they either will themselves, or will arrange for someone else to
> as their proxy.

I don't think so. If they ask for that on the list, that already means 
that their need is large enough.
List-owners needn't to know any computer language, and in fact probably 
most of the list-owners do not know any, and you shouldn't expect that 
they will learn it just to implement a feature in mailman - that's an 
utopian expectation. 

> Frequently, near enough to invariably as to be easily mistaken for it,
> that is not the case.

People sometimes offer their code on the list (a few months ago a code to 
add the links in archive, and now the quotation filter). It's now the 
developers' task not to waste that generous offer and implement it in the 
mailman distribution. 

> Any decent engineer (or otherwise) can think of a thousand great ideas
> an hour.  There isn't a particular shortage of such.  There is a

No, they think that they have great ideas, really great ideas are rare.

> particular shortage of implementations of great ideas.

Sure, but still idea is first. Without an idea there would be no code.

ak