Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 8:12:09 PDT
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: David Schwarze <schwarze@io.nosc.mil>
Subject: Re: Originator Names
DerekDrew@aol.com writes:
>
> I have begun receiving messages which indicate the original sender as sender
> rather than the vanagon list as sender. I don't know if this is something
> Gerry is doing or if my AOL software has begun doing this.
I haven't seen anything like that with ELM (Unix mailer)
> Either way, it isn't such a good idea. When I hit my reply button the message
> might go back to that individual rather than to the whole list.
I prefer it that way. You can still send a group reply if you want, which
would go back to the list. Having ALL replies sent to the list makes it
very hard to send private mail as a response.
> About 1/2 of the messages on this list have no business being here as it is
> merely mindless chatter from lonely people.
Why thank you. What a genuinely nice thing to say!
> I feel that Joel can post any
> message he likes because he regularly contributes very valuable technical
> information.
Not to me, I don't have a Vanagon. In principle, I agree with you, though.
> Some of the other people are just blowing hot air into this
> thing and it has the potential to drive people with real jobs and real lives
> off the list.
Now come on Derek, ALL of us have "real jobs and real lives". Yes, that
includes Ric. :)
> The saving grace is when people properly identify their subject matter. Those
> of us who don't want to read poems about our campers have learned what Friday
> Haiku means.
Agreed.
> Messages still go through here like "Glad to hear that," "I agree," or
> "Thanks for all your help." I feel that if you have this little to say that
> you should send a private message.
I bet a few of them were intended to be. It's entirely too easy to hit "r"
to reply and forget that it is sent to the list. I've even done it a couple
of times, and I do this stuff for a living.
> Please don't generate traffic just to generate traffic. There are plenty of
> places for that sort of thing in cyberspace.
If I might add a little pet peeve of my own, Please also don't quote 80 lines
of text and add 3 new ones at the bottom in your reply!!!! Even with a 56
row window this gets annoying...
-David
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David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat)
SAIC Comsystems, San Diego '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast)
schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...)
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