Date   : Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:20:53 +0100
From   : Andrew Hancock <aquablog@...>
Subject: Re: Reply To Address For List

I wasn't going to "reply to all" to this thread, but I couldn't stop
myself,
when replying to this List, I always Hit Reply to All, then delete the
"sender of the post". I don't think it's a big deal!

It doesn't bother me, I work with IT 24/7, and there's strangeness
everywhere, little quirks here and there, you learn to Compromise.

Thanks to the time and efforts to the list manager, it's much
apprecicated.

Regards

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of
Jules Richardson
Sent: 17 October 2005 17:18
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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
> 
> 
> 
>>Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>
>>>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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