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From: brad@heeltoe.com (Brad Parker)
Subject: [Unix-jun72] Change to mail list behaviour
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 08:47:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15402.1209905249@mini> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080503.125227.1791029143.imp@bsdimp.com>


>: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>: http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
>
>I respectfully disagree.
>
>Religious jihads are like that.

I don't think this is a religious issue.  Please read those pages
carefully.  It's about normal human behavior and expectations.

I can't tell you how many times I've made the same mistakes
listed in those pages.  Many times.  Always wit embarrassment.

My mailer has reply and reply-all and I use them consciously every day.

with the new setting I hit reply-all and I generate 2 copies to the
list...  so this list becomes unlike all the others I am on.

You may still disagree, but I think there is some sound logic 
behind the idea.

-brad



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-04 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-03 12:46 Warren Toomey
2008-05-03 18:43 ` John Cowan
2008-05-03 18:52   ` M. Warner Losh
2008-05-04 12:47     ` Brad Parker [this message]
2008-05-04 23:09   ` Cyrille Lefevre

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