Thank you for the link and for the considerate kind words.
Your quite welcome.
I ask questions to get informed (and to be uplifted by human beings' kindness to each other when they answer questions).
Hmm, Your "question" seems much more of an accusation than an actual question.
Also, I have not painted anybody with any brush, but simply asked a question about how transaction fees are hadled by pools.
You only asked how they were handled after you assumed that all pool ops kept them.
The list the you linked to is comprehensive. Do you mean the answer lies in the "Pay TX Reward?" column.
Yes
If yes, then it seems that the majority of the pools (and p2pool does not count as there is no operator) still keep transaction fees to themselves, so my encouragement for the pool operators to share those accumulated transaction fees still stands.
That's correct.
Your "encouragement" sounds fair and reasonable to me.
Also read the end of the Mining Pools List where a pool shares the transactions with the block finder. That sounds like a cool idea to me as well.
Keep in mind that not all pools keep the information in that list up to date either so there may be more pools who share transaction fees too. And I'm sure as the fees become a higher percentage of income more will follow suit or go by the wayside.
Keep up the kinder/gentler encouragement.
Sam
Edit: And I do apologize for my initial reply being more sarcastic than it needed to be.