Re: [pvusers] Trace & UL listing

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Michael Welch:

>One of the reasons that this list is dead is that when someone hits 
>reply, the reply goes to the sender of the original message instead 
>of the whole list. That is bad for list conversations. I have gotten 
>3 private (off-list) responses to my posting.
>
>For example, nobody else on the list saw this post, because it was 
>apparently sent only to me. Had I responded to it, I would have 
>responded only to the sender.
>
>Moderator, are you listening? Please switch the list over so that 
>replies go to the whole list. In the meantime, the rest of us will 
>need to remember to put in pvusers@crest.org in place of the 
>responded address.

     With all due respect, I disagree.  I have been on several lists 
which use each of these methods (reply-to-sender and reply-to-list). 
Invariably, the signal-to-noise ratio is much better on lists which 
default to reply-to-sender.  You miss all of the "me, too!" and 
similar messages.  I think that it should take an affirmative act to 
reply to the list instead of to the sender.  If you have something 
worth saying, then it's worth that small additional trouble.

     Enjoying the recent activity as I look toward installing our system...

-Speireag.
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which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
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