2 Feb
2000
2 Feb
'00
6:38 p.m.
Sellam wrote:
Because:
a) it makes it more of a BBS, with all messages being contributed to the
public good by default instead of private threads being spawned off
b) who the hell wants to have to read the same message TWICE? (once from
the list and once from the replier)
c) it's an incredible pain in the ass having to edit the reply-to
addresses for every damn message you reply to
Yes to everything! I just got home, and found that with the machine I use
at home that this is even more of a royal pain! It looks like Eudora Pro
doesn't have a group reply. I thought this was a pain in the neck with
'elm', and yes, multiple people have pointed out "Group Reply", but I
don't
consider sending the person who's message I'm replying to, two copies
acceptable behavior! I know *I* don't want two copies everytime someone
replies to something I wrote.
Here is something else to consider, there have got to be list members that
have to pay *PER MINUTE* connection fees (remember those? *I* sure do).
You do a group reply to those folks, you're costing them money! Then there
is the disk space and bandwidth wasted by two messages. Oh, and yes, these
are a couple of the reasons that I get a more than a little irritated with
non-ASCII email and binary attachments!
Zane
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