[BRLTTY] List configuration change.

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:42:53PM +0200, Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. wrote:
> "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <brltty at mielke.cc> wrote:
> > It's been repoted to me that certain posts have, on occasion, failed
> > to reach certain users. In an attempt to resolve this problem I've
> > reluctantly made a configuration change to the list. The "From:" line
> > in the message header now contains the list address rather than the
> > poster's address.
> 
> Sorry for the discord, but I decidedly resent that change. Apart from
> it being quite a bit more than just inconvenient, I don't think I'm
> aware of any other list being configured that way. Obviously, that is
> not to say that they don't exist but it suggests to me that there have
> to be other ways to ensure the delivery of postings to all members of a
> list even *without* changing the From: header. Are you quite sure that
> it isn't the configuration of the systems not receiving list postings
> that needs changing?
> 
> > We'll just have to see how well (or not) this works out.
> 
> Maybe we do, but I hope you won't mind to explain in a little bit more
> detail why this change is actually necessary since I really am
> dissatisfied with this configuration.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Elias

I agree. Most inconvenient.

Bertil Smark Nilsson