[Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts

[Justin H.]

It's also possible (like my corporate account) that their signature 
isn't under their control.  It may be added by their outbound mail 
exchanger, not their client.  This is one of the primary reasons I have 
a dedicated account for mailing lists.

Justin H.

Tim Burke via Outages-discussion wrote:
> As a semi-lurker as well, IMHO the hilariously long signatures are 
> either caused by someone being too lazy to remove it from their 
> response, or what I consider a perceived feeling of over importance... 
> if I were bonkers enough to have a 48 line signature, I still wouldn't 
> want my entire email signature, including cell phone, direct line, 
> direct fax, mailing address, blood type, and mother's maiden name on a 
> sesame seed bun to go out to thousands of people... but I don't think 
> Mailman has a fix for that. 🙂
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> *From:* Outages-discussion <outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org> on 
> behalf of Shaun Potts via Outages-discussion 
> <outages-discussion at outages.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 9:06 AM
> *To:* Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> *Cc:* Outages Discussion <outages-discussion at outages.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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.
>
>         ----
>         Andy Ringsmuth
>         5609 Harding Drive
>         Lincoln, NE 68521-5831
>         (402) 202-1230
>         andy at andyring.com <mailto:andy at andyring.com>
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