Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> This is not about etiquette. This is about personal feelings. Whether
>> acceptable for you or not, it is something very real and affects human
>> behaviour.
>
> We can't take everyone's misgivings at face value.  There is nothing
> wrong with requesting to be copied in to a thread; if someone hestiates
> to do so, we can explain that there is nothing to fear.  If he is still
> hesitant thereafter, we won't be obliged to further accommodate him.

It would be an improvement if this were articulated somewhere in list
description. AFAIK, it is not.

Though I do not agree that explaining that "there is nothing to fear"
will remove the fear. It is not how things work in psychology. Not
always, at least.

In any case, explained or not, this kind of convention will (1) force
people to expose their email in the thread; (2) create an extra obstacle
to participate; (3) still gives no 100% guarantee that future discussion
will be CCed.

>> And what do you mean by "sign up for more trouble"? What I essentially
>> asked for - "It would be nice if anyone can subscribe to an individual
>> thread anonymously." I am not 100% sure why mailing list software does
>> not have such feature, but the fact that web forges do have it is one of
>> the objective reasons why they are viewed as more comfortable option.
>
> Introducing such a capability to the Emacs lists will compel us to bear
> two different types of threads in mind, and that constitutes trouble.

May you elaborate?

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