Re: [Xenomai] Xenomai 3.0-rc3 Interruption on Arietta G25 (AT91SAM9G25 chip)

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:32:24PM -0700, Paul Janzen wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> writes:
> >> I'm simply suggesting that xenomai mailman be configured to include
> >> this header. Then people would have to consciously edit header fields
> >> to send to your private account only.
> >
> > No, the mailman documentation recommends against that, it is a
> > recipe for sending private mails to the list unintentionally, which
> > is way worse than the opposite.
> 
> Your responses to those who make the trivial mistake of clicking on
> "reply" rather than "reply all" seem to indicate that you believe
> otherwise.

My response are a warning, just that: next private mail will not
receive an answer. But otherwise, again, I prefer this error than
the opposite.

> 
> The rationale behind the mailman developers' stance against Reply-To:
> is that users should be encouraged to choose either to reply to the
> original sender's personal address, or to the entire list.  This is
> the opposite of the stated policy of the xenomai list.

There are cases where a private answer is appropriate, asking a
question about xenomai, is not one of them.

> 
> If you personally do not want replies sent only to your personal
> address, then feel free to configure your MUA to insert your own
> Reply-To: header.  If you want to maximize the amount of
> xenomai-related traffic captured in the digests, configure mailman to
> do it.

No, I think I will handle things differently: private answers to the
xenomai mailing list will go to my "slow" imap folder only polled once a
day.

-- 
					    Gilles.