[Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts

[Matt Barton]

Hello

I appreciate the brainstorming, but I'm not sure what problem we're trying to solve. Honestly, I don't know what's worse: the flood of "me too" posts or the folks who get upset about the "me too" posts.

So what I do is just delete them and move on. It's a lot easier than getting upset or writing an email about it like I'm doing now. 😬 LOL

--
Matt Barton
matt at netmonkey.net

On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 12:49 PM, Josh Luthman via Outages-discussion wrote:
> This is all proof programmers will spend 2 hours to avoid a delete button.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 12:38 PM Joey Kelly via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 9, 2024 10:59:02 AM CST Jay R. Ashworth via Outages-
>> discussion wrote:
>> > 
>> > I suppose we might -- if it's technically practical -- have an arrangement
>> > like:
>> > 
>> > A daemon reposts to outages-notify any message that comes into outages
>> > without "Re:" in its subject line?  Or, if the list processor doesn't break
>> > the headers, perhaps any message that doesn't contain an In-Reply-To
>> > header; do email clients still put those in?
>> > 
>> > That might get us the best of both worlds...
>> 
>> More too-cleverness...
>> 
>> If the mailing list software is hackable, we could maybe add an X-whatever 
>> header line with an ID, then have procmail/formail (my tools) redirect all 
>> replies with that header to -discussion. The usual problems with such a setup 
>> would will apply: users not subbed to -discussion would be a common problem, 
>> but even that can be automated... if the sender's email isn't in the second 
>> list, he could be notified via an emailed template stating that the message 
>> was accepted but a sub to the second list (or a link to the archives) is 
>> suggested to see all replies, etc. 
>> 
>> $.02
>> 
>> -- 
>> Joey Kelly
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>> 
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