OT: Steve Jobs' Walled Garden is Crumbling

[Samuel Thurston]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 08:27 AM, Michael Haney wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David Sanders
>>> <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Indeed -this is fine in gmail, and if everyone used gmail there'd be
>>>> no problem. I believe it not to be fine in other mail clients (from
>>>> what I've heard on this list).
>>>>
>>>> To be clear: this isn't something I've ever moaned about - I don't
>>>> care about getting extra mail - but quite a few others have complained
>>>> about it and still nothing has been done to prevent it.
>>>>
>>>> As another aside - I don't accept the idea that sending email to this
>>>> list means I then want to receive unsolicited personal e-mail - so
>>>> no-one should be sending personal emails to list members without
>>>> asking first on the list IMO. This being the case, I doubt very much
>>>> that any personal email will be posted if the Reply-To: header is
>>>> modified. In any case - it's going bike-shed shaped here!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not fixing the headers on this list is like sitting in a sinking boat
>>> and yelling at the water gushing in through the hole in the bottom to
>>> stop and expecting it to obey.
>>>
>>
>> /me quite happy with the way this list is setup and wishes the
>> ubuntu-users list was similarly setup to facilitate private replies
>> without having to muck about.
>>
>
> With that statement you then forfeit the right to complain about
> receiving unsolicited emails to your private address meant for the
> list by accident.  It is only right since you're inconveniencing so
> many others by not fixing the headers.  The same should go for anyone
> else opposed to fixing the headers.  You loose the right to complain
> about receiving unsolicited emails from list users by accident.
>
> Who else who thinks the headers need to be fixed agrees with me?  If
> we need to be inconvenienced and so do you.  Its only fair.
>

Honestly you guys post to a list published in several forms across the
internet and expect to not get any unsolicited emails as a result?

Are you guys really this sensitive about the contents of your inbox?