[cap-talk] EQ, cross post to e-lang? Mechanism? Consensus?

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 16/12/2006, at 21.17, Jed Donnelley wrote:

>At 08:15 PM 12/16/2006, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>>PLEASE do not do this. Experience shows that this will merely bifurcate
>>the discussion -- the list memberships are not the same, and the mailing
>>list manager will attempt to filter multiple-list posts as an anti-spam
>>measure. Which list will receive the messages is hard to determine, and
>>users hitting "reply" will only reply to one list because we clobber the
>>Reply-To: header with a single list name.
>
>No problem.  I was just asking whether it seemed reasonable.  To me
>the discussion of EQ seems quite applicable to both lists.
>
>>A better thing to do is to post a URL to the current thread over on the
>>e-lang list.
>
>We could do that.  Why wouldn't that have similar problems?
>How would somebody on the e-lang list participate in the discussion?

Do like I did, subscribe to both lists, after all, they are correlated.

>I think we should have a way of suggesting how they could participate
>before doing any sort of cross posting.  Would we suggest that if
>they are interested they should join cap-talk and participate exclusively
>on cap-talk?
>
>Since there seems to be some sensitivity I'm not going to touch it
>without some consensus.
>
>--Jed http://www.webstart.com/jed/ 
>
>
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