[SlugBug] reply-to-harmful (was gentoo and dhcpcd)

[Bill Best]

Alan Dawson wrote:


> Hi Mike ... I notice that all the solutions to your eth0 problem have been 
> made off list ( mine included, accidentally).  List admins, any chance of 
> changing the defaults to reply to list?  Or taking a vote on it?  Surely the 
> gain of useful traffic on the list is worth the risk of irrelevant but 
> personal traffic hitting it? 

i would tend to disagree with you, Al, for these reasons:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

and i would totally repudiate these arguments here:

http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml

i try to keep the noise-to-signal ratio to a minimum by thanking peeps 
off-list unless i can combine my gratitude with some new bit of 
information to post.

bill