Date   : Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:20:17 +1100
From   : msmcdoug@... (Mark McDougall)
Subject: Who the message is from...

Edit: how apt that I even responded incorrectly in _this_ posting!!!

Rick Murray wrote:

> Now, for another point of view. Technical issues and header lines aside, 
> the *LOGICAL* behaviour is to click REPLY to REPLY TO THE MAILING LIST. 
> Any variance from that is odd and bizarre and objectively demotes the 
> intent of the list. I mean, what is the sense behind "Here's your 
> messages, but we'll make it real easy for you to NOT reply to the list". 
> It's a mailing list, right? Like a little private forum. Not a 1-to-1 
> dating service!

You are, of course, perfectly correct, and this is perhaps the most succinct
illustration of the current absurdity that I have yet to read.

I am currently subscribed to no less than 22 mailing lists, and this is the
_only_ list that is configured this way, and the _only_ list that has this
question raised over and over and over again.

Unfortuately, as someone else stated, this is a dictatorship, not a
democracy, and one stick-in-the-mud has thus far stubbonly resisted - for
whatever reason - any and all calls (no matter how numerous) to have it
brought in line with pretty much every other mailing list on the planet. And
I have not read _one_ single good reason to leave it this way (note: I have
read reasons, but no _good/sensible_ reasons). But I, like others, have no
choice but to suck it if I want to be part of the BBC online community.

And as much as I hate it, I agree that it would be counter-productive to
start another list, as I suspect it would do nothing but divide the BBC
community.

Regards,

-- 
|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
|  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less resistance!"