Re: [EAI] The mailing list draft

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2012/06/20 5:08, John Levine wrote:
> Thanks for your note.  I'll recycle the draft shortly.
>
>> 2.2 in general: It occurred to be that one way of implementing this is
>> to have two mailing list addresses, or in some way almost two mailing
>> list, one old-style and one EAI, where submitted messages are
>> automatically shared. Or is this a bad idea for some reason? If not, a
>> more explicit description might help.
>
> I don't see what problem that would solve.  It's easy enough when a
> message arrives to look at it and see whether it's an EAI message or
> not.
>
> The hard parts are knowing which subscribers accept EAI and which
> don't, and for EAI messages to be sent to non-EAI subscribers, how to
> downgrade them.  I suppose you could have two subscription addresses, one
> for EAI and one for non-EAI, but even a weenie like me knows that's a
> dreadful user interface that people will get wrong all the time.

I guess that addresses the "is this a bad idea for some reason?".

Regards,   Martin.