mail to individuals

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>        I have come to the conclusion that I am just going to click
> reply to and you guys will have to ban me from your in boxes.  That of

I wouldn't ban you, but just use "reply all"... your client has that
button right?

> course means there will be a whole in every discussion I post to and
> sounder can do something or nothing.  When a thing is done different
> than the way everyone else does it because of some obscure rule the rule
> is wrong.  That is unless the rule is made by GOD.  A programmer does a
> thing to make his job easier and the end users job harder then he is
> wrong not the user.

This isn't really the process at play: again it's the mail clients
that are broken and it isn't all of them.  it's actually very few of
them.  but those few are fairly widely used.

>       This is in my opinion the main thing wrong with free and open
> source.  As an individual I don't have a vote in how things are done
> unless I can program, or at least my vote doesn't carry any weight.  If
> I buy a program I am voting with my  money and I can always take my
> vote  someplace else.  Having said this I don't want to vote with
> money,  so I am sort of stuck with Open source. I will just carry on my
> own way and one day maybe  they will throw me off this list or fix the
> problem.  If I am banned from every bodies in box my posts will go no
> place and the future of mankind will be less by some tiny amount :-)

It seems like you have a defeatist attitude.  You've been given
several options that don't involve the list changing its settings.
1) hit reply all
2) use a compliant email client - there are several free options.
3) register a complaint with the developer of the email client you do
use. THESE COMPLAINTS ARE HEARD. you do have a vote.  it's not as
strong as if you were a programmer, but even programmers don't get all
their patches accepted.

this is the problem with your problem with FOSS: you want it for free,
you want it to work the way you want, and you don't want to have to do
anything even so trivial as asking the developers  for features you
want.  In this case you are stuck with what you get.  If you ask and
they don't do anything, you can complain more or switch products.