Sellam wrote:
>Because:
>
>a) it makes it more of a BBS, with all messages being contributed to the
> public good by default instead of private threads being spawned off
>b) who the hell wants to have to read the same message TWICE? (once from
> the list and once from the replier)
>c) it's an incredible pain in the ass having to edit the reply-to
> addresses for every damn message you reply to
Yes to everything! I just got home, and found that with the machine I use
at home that this is even more of a royal pain! It looks like Eudora Pro
doesn't have a group reply. I thought this was a pain in the neck with
'elm', and yes, multiple people have pointed out "Group Reply", but I don't
consider sending the person who's message I'm replying to, two copies
acceptable behavior! I know *I* don't want two copies everytime someone
replies to something I wrote.
Here is something else to consider, there have got to be list members that
have to pay *PER MINUTE* connection fees (remember those? *I* sure do).
You do a group reply to those folks, you're costing them money! Then there
is the disk space and bandwidth wasted by two messages. Oh, and yes, these
are a couple of the reasons that I get a more than a little irritated with
non-ASCII email and binary attachments!
Zane
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Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 02:38:59 GMT