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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 09:49:54 -0300 (ADT)
From: the Shockwave Surfer <shockwav@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Subject: Re: Replying versus deliberately sending to lightwave-l
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On Fri, 8 Jul 1994 peterson@zko.dec.com wrote:
> Sorry, but I gotta add some signal to this noise.
>
> This private and other pointless subscription email is one reason I
> *really* believe that lightwave-l mail should come from an account named
> lightwave-info. Thus anyone unthinkly replying would send their reply
> to lightwave-info, and their message would be reflected back to them
> ONLY, accompanied by a standard lightwave-l FAQ (how to subscribe, how
> to send messages to the whole list).
>
> People who want to send to the whole list must instead deliberately send
> mail to lightwave-l. Some mailer UIs allow you to change the To: line
> in the reply, others will have to start a fresh message (with or without
> forwarding the one they want to reply to). I don't think this is
> onerous, and would cut down on the lazy or uninformed use of lightwave-l.
It is EXTREMELY onerous. It would cut down on the use of this list by
those professionals too busy to bother with such antics. That would be a
Very Bad Thing (tm).
There. Had my say.
> I suggested this to the list admin but got no reply. I've seen enough
> examples of email here which this solution would fix.
The list admin probably thought it was a poor idea.
ObLWstuff: Anyone else wish there were toroids in the objects primitives
list? Must write an AREXX macro for that...