[Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts

[Shaun Potts]

Hopefully I'm not out of place here, but I want to just say as a 99% lurker
and observer that the most obnoxious thing about reading all the back and
forth here is people sending 5 word emails with 83 lines of signature. Can
we trim that off or something?

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM Josh Luthman via Outages-discussion <
outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:

> Myself and others feel like these posts end up generating way more noise
> than just letting it go. I'm not sure why it's so hard to just swipe right
> rather than get frustrated with it.  I don't think anything outages@ is
> urgent enough to put it on mute or something?
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Ringsmuth via Outages-discussion <
> outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:
>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> Yesterday’s AT&T flub again showed the need for us all to be much more
>> deliberate about how we use the outages and outages-discussion lists.
>>
>> I’m not sure off the top of my head who is responsible for the overall
>> setup on these lists, or I’d reach out to that person/people directly.
>>
>> Having said that, can we PLEASE consider setting the “Reply To:” default
>> for the outages list to be outages-discussion? That is definitely an option
>> within the Mailman list configuration.
>>
>> That would eliminate an insane number of extraneous (and very very long)
>> messages for those of us who use the outages list as a notification source
>> for immediate attention, which I believe to be the intent of that list. I’m
>> looking at one message posted to outages yesterday that was a reply to a
>> reply to a reply to a reply to a digest message. 513 lines of text!
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the consideration.
>>
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