[Mailman-Users] New user - Mailman question

[Charles Mikecz Vamossy]

At 02:22 PM 8/20/2004 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>Jeff Barger wrote:
> >
> >On Aug 20, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Richard Barrett wrote:
> >
> >> Am I alone in taking exception to people posting to this list and then
> >> having some crap software intercepting the responses they have
> >> solicited from the list's subscribers.
> >
> >Nope, I expect that's a pretty crowded room :)
> >
>
>For the record. I'm in there too.
>
>In fairness to the OP, he may not be aware of this, but I wish people
>could understand that autoresponders, mandatory white lists and so
>forth are not compatible with mailing list participation.
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

You really expect ordinary users, who sign up for a discussion list to 
understand autoresponders, mandatory white lists, etc???  Most have trouble 
just figuring out the difference between their user ID's and passwords.  To 
reach a large number of users, the program should be simpler and intuitive 
(which I know requires a much better quality of development).  So far my 
brief introduction to Mailman has been anything but...