Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- From: Will Gosney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:40:17 -0500
At 12:25 PM -0800 12/30/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
All this is very true, Chuq. But I think it's safe to say that just about
everyone who is Replying to All is using it as a device to reply to the list
without having to copy and paste the list's email address every time, with
an email client that doesn't have another easy way of doing so.
So get a different one or rtfm. Eudora allows you to do this by
holding down the option key or you can toggle the settings. You can
get a free download if you don't mind looking at a small ad window at
http://www.eudora.com/ It appears you are using
Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 which I am unfamiliar with.
<snippo>
BTW, what's that "Elm" being referred to by the author of the paper
referenced in the FAQ, as his favorite email client? Some relative of Pine?
I believe Elm was the email client used in Pine, of course, it has
been a long time ago for me.
From: Chuq von Rospach <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:03:26 -0800
To: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>,
<email@hidden>
Cc: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>, "'billp'" <email@hidden>,
Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current
handler name in a string variable)
On 12/28/01 8:07 AM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
Could you all please stop sending your message to every address that
the previous poster just happened to add? I'm getting tired of
needlessly receiving duplicates of many of this list's messages.
Then you should teach your client to strip duplicates out or your incoming
mail stream. Trying to get everyone else to do it the way you prefer won't
work, and forgets that there are are lot of different people on the list,
and they have their preferred ways to use the list, too. Would you be happy
if someone came up and said "I insist you CC me on all mail you send to the
list?" of course not. And you'd ignore them, most likely.
So show the same tolerance of other people's preferences that you'd want
shown to yours. People use the lists the way THEY feel comfortable with. If
you want it to look a certain way, teach your client to do it for you, don't
try to retrain the hundreds of folks on the list that what you want takes
precedence over what everyone else wants.
Suggestion to Chuq: How about adding a Reply-To:
<email@hidden> header?
Read the FAQ:
<http://www.lists.apple.com/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?id=208>
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Will