OK, I wouldn't argue with this at all. I'll change it to reply to list and
if you all think it is getting out of hand, we can change it back. Frankly,
this list probably won't ever get out of hand.
Thanks for the input!
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com [mailto:karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com]On
> Behalf Of Joseph D'Andrea
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:00 AM
> To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
> Subject: Re: [Karlnet] FYI: List Format
>
>
> At 1:38 PM -0400 4/23/02, Bill Fisher wrote:
> >I set this up to reply to the sender rather than the list. I
> hope that is
> >OK with everyone... it drives me nuts to see all those obviously personal
> >messages on that other list.
>
> Personally, I don't like this type of set-up. And with fewer then 50
> subscribers, personal replies should not be a problem. I think that
> using a brute force mechanism to prevent personal messages is not the
> right way to go. I think that training subscribers that personal
> replies are discouraged is the right way to go. But the main reason I
> have for not liking the reply-to-sender type lists is that unless the
> person doing the replying takes the extra step (or more
> appropriately, remembers to take the extra step) of replying to all,
> only the original poster gets the answer he/she is looking for. On
> this type of list, those answers are valuable and if they don't make
> it into the archive because the reply/answer only went to the sender,
> then the archives become just a collection of questions and the
> answers remain elusive to all but the original sender.
>
> my 3 cents.
>
> --joe
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