Subject: Re: list description
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 23:52:23 AKST
The list has zero to do with it. All the list does is forward messages
it receives to everyone on the list. Any Replying, Cc'ing, etc is
handled by the users and the e-mail program they use - NOT the list.
If you don't want to do reply-all, then type in your addresses yourself
or use an address book. All easy solutions. The list is not a message
board and it does not operate like a message board. If you don't have
time or patience to cut-and-paste or type an e-mail address as a
solution to your problem, then quite frankly, Linux is probably not the
OS of choice for you.
As for 'oldbies' vs. 'newbies', there is a very good reason why RTFM and
STFW are popular expressions. Most 'newbie' questions have been
answered many many times, and solutions are posted all over the web, and
even though we are a smallish group, you can search all the past
messages sent to the list - there have been quite a lot of questions
asked and answered, I personally have over 2400 messages in my 'AKLUG'
folder, and that's just 4 months worth of mail.
Before this turns into some big flame war, I would recommend reading the
preface of the Smoothwall FAQ - it contains some very insightful
observations that anyone who posts to a Linux list/board/chat room
should take to heart. It's only 20 short (i.e. large font) pages - it
will only take all of 5 or 10 minutes to read.
You can find it at http://smoothwall.org/download/pdf/docs/0.9.9/doc.faq.pdf
Regards,
Justin
Quemielle DuChesne wrote:
> The music discussion. Matt says he's gotten about 20 emails, either initial
> replies or subsequent discussion. The settings for the list take the
> 'reply' directly to the poster unless 'reply-all' is used. I personally
> don't care to get two copies of everything and assume most people don't, so
> pushing 'reply-all' is a repugnant choice. Since most have precious little
> time to do even minor fiddling, rather than type the group's addy in and
> fiddle with the subject line, most push the plain 'reply'.
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