[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] JOSM Duplicate Way Plugin

[graham]

Brent Easton wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> Thanks for the brief explanation. I suspected as much - the techo's in charge of the facility not really giving a fig about what the users actually need.
> 

With this kind of collaborative project I don't think it's helpful to 
try to create a division between 'techos in charge' and 'users'. Most 
people have some elements of both, and most so-called 'users' are quite 
capable of becoming 'techos' if they wish.

Regars
Graham
PS for what it's worth, I agree with you about the list reply policy, 
but at least I can see there's arguments on both sides.


> Sorry about bringing it up, I will butt out now.
> 
> Regards,
> Brent.
> 
> PS. This sort of things makes me really nervous about the quality of the technical decisions that are being made on things that really matter!
> 
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> On 31/07/2007 at 8:56 AM Ulf Lamping  wrote:
> 
>> Raphael Studer schrieb:
>>>> PS. PLEASE can someone change the reply-to address of the talk mailing
>> lists to the group, not the sender.....
>>>>     
>>> About two weeks ago, there was a huge discussion about this. With the
>>> result, that modern eMail clients have "Replay to all" buttons.
>>>   
>> No, there was no real result at all.
>>
>> The sysadmin thinks that "reply-to" is a bad idea, some (hard-core 
>> unix/linux) people have the same meaning and then there was a huge 
>> discussion with a lot of mailing list users thinking differently. So the 
>> sysadmin still thinks he's right and there are still a lot of people 
>> unhappy and complaining about it.
>>
>> I wouldn't call this a good result ...
>>
>> Regards, ULFL
>>
>>
>> P.S: Please don't refresh the whole discussion again, as we won't 
>> convince the admin!
>>
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