Banner/Link exchange proposal (fwd)

[corliss at alaskapm.org]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jeremiah Johnson wrote:

> that doesn't make any sense.  THE PEOPLE YOU'RE REPLYING TO ARE ALREADY
> PART OF THE LIST AND WILL GET THE MESSAGE WITHOUT YOU ADDING THEIR NAME TO
> THE CC: LIST.  This then will reply only to the person who sent the
> message unless you reply all and remove everyone but the list.  VERY
> ANNOYING.  This is just a pet peeve of mine, but I'll leave over it,
> that's for sure.  I'm not that fancy of a perl coder anyway, so its no big
> loss for you.

Listen very closely:  when you get a message, you can send a private reply
just by *replying* to the message.  If you want everyone to get the reply,
then send a *reply-to-all*.  Yes, the person you're replying to will get the
message twice.  That's the price you pay for favouring private replies over
public replies.  Most e-mail clients allow reply and reply-to-all via hot
keys, so this is a very efficient way to do it.

I've also said that if everyone prefers to do the opposite, and have the reply
go straight to the list, I can set it up that way, but we need to vote on it.
I know that from personal experience, I tend to use the private response more
than the public since much of my replies may be either off topic or cover more
than what the original message asked for.

Now, what is everyone's preference?  Do a simple reply to this message to send
me a private vote. . .

> In my mind, it inhibits posting to the list.  There have been several
> times I have not posted for this very reason.  I was in a good mood
> tonight, and went throught the very simple, but very annoying steps, then
> my piece of shit ISP disconnected me, and now I'm furious.  I don't live
> in Alaska, and for the most part all ISPs up there are great, but this one
> here doesn't seem to  understand that sending out maintanance notices and
> downtime windows to everyone is worth losing all the customers they're
> losing.
> 
> Anyway, now I'm furious, and i'm posting out of anger.  I don't post when
> I have something to say, only when I'm happy or angry, and that's not the
> kind of behavior a list should encourage, at least I don't think so.

Sounds like you have an issue with your ISP, not with us.  You might be better
off dealing with your issues off-line, and not on any list.  Either way, I do
consider the tone of your e-mail to be inappropriate.  If this is going to be
the standard voice you're going to adopt, you're more than welcome to leave.
If you take this tone with anyone else on this list, I'll do it for you.

	--Arthur Corliss
	  Perl Monger/Alaska Perl Mongers
	  http://www.alaskapm.org/


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