On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Bill Dawson wrote:
> you, and to the list. I hit "Reply", and only you get the reply. I can
> easily go to the TO box, and remove your name if I wish to reply only to the
> list. I'll do this now.....OK, took about 2 seconds. Where is the problem?
The problem here is diversity of mail clients. Not all allow you to
simply delete the individual's address and be done with it. PINE, for
instance (what I currently use) requires me to cut the classiccmp address
from the CC line and paste it to the To: line, but only after I've deleted
the To: line.
You are looking at it from your (somewhat limited) perspective. You
probably use a GUI-based e-mail client. I don't. Like many others, I
prefer to use a text-based mail reader over a telnet connection because
I'm old school and damn proud of it. In fact, a lot of people subscribed
to this list are naturally old school, and naturally are using older
systems without all the fancy editing features your mail reader apparently
does. In fact, that's what this list is all about: old school people
using old school systems to talk about old school computers. That being
the case, the list should cater to us old schoolers.
It should also:
* Conform to the RFC
* Be conducive to a PUBLIC discussion that can be archived for posterity
* Not send out more replies than are required, thus annoying people
> FWIW, I don't believe thinly veiled threats on the part of prominent list
> members who want their own way should be considered valid arguments in this
> debate, I.E. :
<...>
Well, I've pretty much laid out very logical reasons to revert to the old
method, which I've reiterated above. Perhaps you need to read a little
further into the discussion. Quite frankly, I don't care how it turns out
because I'm only subscribed by virtue of the fact that I was a subscribed
(but inactive) member of the old list. I'm just still trying to figure
out a way to stop the messages from coming to me without having to
unsubscribe. If I have to unsubscribe to make this happen, then I'll
probably not want to go through the trouble of re-subscribing just to post
a quick message say "This person has this hardware..." and then having to
unsubscribe again.
SO I guess what I'm saying is, this software sucks and has caused nothing
but grief for all involved, so let's just go back to the old list
processing software that u.washington.edu was using. Screw MajorDomo. I
don't even like that name. What the fork is a MajorDomo anyway? Screw
MajorDomo, it's developer, and the boat that person came in on.
> I would have expected more logical argumentation and discussion from a group
> heavily vested in this resource.
Once would, but look at what we've mainly talked about since the list
became active again. We're a wacky bunch.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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