Date   : Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:17:58 +0100
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Reply To Address For List

Colin wrote:
> Of course, all being interested in computers of one sort or another and
> probably well capable of writing programs in BASIC at the very least,
> actually looking at the e-mail we are writing to see who we are actually
> sending it to (it's only a few cms above where we type it) is totally beyond
> us. We just hit "reply" and "send". (I'm as guilty as most of us of doing
> this and nearly did it with this one).

You're right there - it's more the need to hit reply to all, then remove 
the to: field (which is the individual), then change the cc: field to a 
to: field on every single message which drives me nuts!

It seems a strange way of doing it; certainly for any mailing list I'm 
on well over 90% of traffic is to the list (99% with this list) with the 
remainder to individuals, and I suspect that's the case for nearly 
everyone here. Maybe there are lurkers here who only ever watch and 
reply to individuals - but the list wouldn't exist without those who 
publicly contributed, so setting it up to make things easier for them 
would just seem more sensible to me.

Still, it's been like this for as long as I remember (OK not true, I 
can't remember what the situation was when it was all at York uni) so I 
don't expect it'll change. It's the only mailing list I've come across 
in the last couple of years that's setup this way though! Plus of course 
we're lucky to have it at all, so we can't complain too much :-)

cheers

Jules









> I wonder what that tells us about ourselves?
> One would think that we would be more likely to double-check everything than
> most (remember the hours of searching through printouts for the missing ; or
> "no such variable at line xxx" and similar or the one that just dumped the
> program and you couldn't figure out why?).
> Colin Hill
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk@...>
> To: <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Reply To Address For List
> 
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>>Jeff Gaines wrote:
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>>>Hello Group,
>>>
>>>  Apologies if this has been done to death before but is there any
>>>  chance that the robot that handles the list could set the reply to
>>>  address to that of the list?
>>
>>It crops up every couple of weeks or so I'm afraid - I think most of us
>>would rather it was changed!
>>
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