Subject: RE: DSSSL Documentation Project From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:30:28 +0900 |
>I always consciously know whether a post is appropriate for the list or >for an individual, and set up my headers appropriately (except when I am >in a big hurry and don't think things through). I don't think that >changing the technology would make a big difference to the primarily >*social* principle of sharing instead of hoarding information. Anyhow, >the call is yours. Here's a reference that may or may not help you to >decide: > >http://www.miranova.com/~steve/reply-to-harmful.html I just looked at this page and agree with what is written there. Frankly, I have mostly found the Reply-To header to be rather a convenient feature till now, but I regret to say that I am (was, now) one of the "brain-dead" users mentioned there---the ones that didn't know they had a "group-reply" button on their mailer. (I would like to blame Microsoft Outlook for that fact, because I despise Windows, but for some reason the group reply button has been staring me in the face from the top button panel for months now and I haven't noticed it. Maybe it's because it's written in Japanese... ;) Like Paul, I think that I always consciously decide whether I want to send a reply to the list or privately and the logic that Reply-To increases list traffic strikes me as vaguely Orwellian ("All replies are private, but some replies are more private than others"? :), so I move that we stop munging the Reply-To header as suggested. I am not going to go jump off a cliff if it doesn't get done, but I think it is a wise thing to do. Besides, if only half of the comments and questions that I suspect James Clark and Norman Walsh must get everyday about Jade and the DocBook style sheet arrives at the list, it will be more than I can read...! Frankly, there are so many novice questions about DSSSL and Scheme hitting the list every day now that I am starting to do mass deletions. All the more reason to resurrect---I mean, finish---the DD project... (Don't look at _me_. :) --FC DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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