[LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Erick Calder]

but if you're participating in a mailing list you should have to take extra
steps to reply off-list and not the other way around.

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy Leader
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:36 PM
To: losangeles-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: RE: [LA.pm] The odds of finger games


I believe if it's set up the other way, then you
get lots of people trying to reply off-list to
the sender of a message, and inadvertently spamming
the whole list with their response.

Jeremy Leader

At 06:50 PM 3/5/03 , Erick Calder wrote:
>I'm subscribed to a number of other mailing lists which handle the replies
>differently... I keep getting double messages because it's annoying to
>reply-all and then remove everything but the mailing-list address so no one
>does it (except for me)...
>
>anyone care to second a motion to make this more usable?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org
>[mailto:losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Scott Francis
>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:41 PM
>To: Ask Bjoern Hansen
>Cc: Scott Francis; Erick Calder; losangeles-pm at mail.pm.org
>Subject: Re: [LA.pm] The odds of finger games
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:27PM -0800, ask at develooper.com said:
>[snip]
> > > > btw, the http://pm.org isn't defined... I have to http://www.pm.org
> > >
> > > If you think about it a minute, it doesn't really make any sense to
type
> > > 'http://domain.tld' into your browser anyway. It's a DOMAIN, not a
>machine
> > > with an IP address.
> >
> > That's just an artifact of your DNS configuration.
>
>True ... but one should not EXPECT domain.tld to produce www.domain.tld
just
>because one happens to hit it with an HTTP client. (Any more than I expect
>openbsd.org to redirect to ftp.openbsd.org just because I happen to make an
>FTP request ...)
>--
>Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
>       illum oportet crescere me autem minui
>
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