-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:24:56PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Then there is also the time-honored usenet practice of requesting > that all replies be directed to the original poster, who will then > post a summary of the replies at a later date.
Not sure how time honored that is anymore. Seems a lot of people do it then convienently forget to post a summary. I generally discourage people from responding off-list to an on-topic, on-list request for help. Too many people have decided that they don't have to participate in the community to reap it's benefits, this behaviour kills communities. > Don't forget that what I'm calling a Bad Idea here is the suggestion > that the list manager remove sender addresses from list messages. If > it does so, you can't copy someone's email address and send a direct > reply because it is no longer present to be copied. And people wonder why I consider munging harmful on places like slashdot or Usenet. First time I need to make a private response to someone and can't on Usenet, they go into the bozo bin permanently. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > Digests reduce the number of messages received, but do not make it > any easier to find the one or two replies to your question that may > or may not exist within the hundreds of total posts to the list. > (Actually, I suspect they would make it harder, since threading > generally does not work with digests.) That's when you save the digest as a mailbox, though I think Mutt might thread digests in-digest. I've always found it far easier to just let the information flow. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eXBnJ5vLSqVpK2kRAnodAJ40PAxEQrJDeU36ar7qBdpV9RgrgACffy/9 1dPyyJzo9AIqPuMzG7lLHx8= =yCD1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
