[LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Erick Calder]

maybe I have the wrong impression about mailing lists but I tend to perceive
their power mostly in the ability to aggregate knowledge i.e. if someone has
a problem and someone else a solution, neither message may be of immediate
value to me but if I read them there are now 3 people smarter about the
problem instead of 2.

the case you describe is really more suitable for a bulletin board than a
mailing list.

so what I'm saying is that in most cases if people make a mistake in simply
replying, as opposed to replying to all, you want the mailing list to
benefit from the exchange as opposed to constantly branching off into
private conversations no one else benefits from.

-----Original Message-----
From: losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org
[mailto:losangeles-pm-admin at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy Leader
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:51 AM
To: losangeles-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: RE: [LA.pm] The odds of finger games


Why's that?  In some cases, replying on-list
is more appropriate, in other replying off-list
is more appropriate.  For example, if someone
says "hey, I've got the coolest job opportunity
in the world", do you really want to see dozens
of "Yeah, I'm interested, here's my resume"
messages?  Not that that would happen these days,
but you get the idea.

Jeremy Leader

At 01:05 AM 3/6/03 , Erick Calder wrote:
>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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