<div><div dir="auto">I have a solution. Why don’t we require any replies to participate in a tech hunger games to determine whose email gets sent to the list? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I honestly think this is a major issue facing the future of the internet so we should spend more time figuring out an elegant solution as humanity is relying upon us as a microcosm of the struggles modern technology users face. If we can’t figure it out then all hope be lost.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think technological problems are best solved with non technical solutions when available.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts?<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 05:17 Matt Barton via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hello<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div id="m_7415531273591613957m_-7867634348785016016sig123000552"><div>--<br></div><div>Matt Barton<br></div><div><a href="mailto:matt@netmonkey.net" target="_blank">matt@netmonkey.net</a><br></div></div></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div>On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 12:49 PM, Josh Luthman via Outages-discussion wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="m_7415531273591613957m_-7867634348785016016qt"><div dir="ltr">This is all proof programmers will spend 2 hours to avoid a delete button.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 12:38 PM Joey Kelly via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div>On Saturday, March 9, 2024 10:59:02 AM CST Jay R. Ashworth via Outages-<br></div><div> discussion wrote:<br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > I suppose we might -- if it's technically practical -- have an arrangement<br></div><div> > like:<br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > A daemon reposts to outages-notify any message that comes into outages<br></div><div> > without "Re:" in its subject line? Or, if the list processor doesn't break<br></div><div> > the headers, perhaps any message that doesn't contain an In-Reply-To<br></div><div> > header; do email clients still put those in?<br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > That might get us the best of both worlds...<br></div><div> <br></div><div> More too-cleverness...<br></div><div> <br></div><div> If the mailing list software is hackable, we could maybe add an X-whatever <br></div><div> header line with an ID, then have procmail/formail (my tools) redirect all <br></div><div> replies with that header to -discussion. The usual problems with such a setup <br></div><div> would will apply: users not subbed to -discussion would be a common problem, <br></div><div> but even that can be automated... if the sender's email isn't in the second <br></div><div> list, he could be notified via an emailed template stating that the message <br></div><div> was accepted but a sub to the second list (or a link to the archives) is <br></div><div> suggested to see all replies, etc. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> $.02<br></div><div> <br></div><div> -- <br></div><div> Joey Kelly<br></div><div> Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant<br></div><div> <a href="http://joeykelly.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://joeykelly.net</a><br></div><div> 504-239-6550<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> Outages-discussion mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:Outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">Outages-discussion@outages.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Outages-discussion mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">Outages-discussion@outages.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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