ICL8038 (and Synth-DIY email formats)

[Glen]

At 07:12 AM 1/25/01 , Paul Perry wrote:

>BZZZZZZT!! DISAGREE STRONGLY!!
>and here is why: because it is usually more unfortunate, to accidentally 
>send a 
>reply intended only for one person to the whole list, than vice-versa.

Two points come to mind:

I have only sent a private email to a mailing list once in my lifetime. I'm
currently subscribed to about 30 different mailing lists, and in the past,
I have been subscribed to several other lists (though not all at once.) I
have a lot of experience using mailing lists, and I have used them for
several years. I don't consider a single mistake out of all that email to
be a serious problem. It's certainly not enough of an issue that I would
want to change the function of a mailing list to make up for a single
mistake on *my* part.

In case you haven't noticed, the current behavior of the Synth-DIY list is
"non-standard" and there are only a small minority of lists that follow
this same pattern. In fact, the only lists that I have seen with this
behavior are the synth-related lists "Synth-DIY", "Analogue Heaven", and
"Digital Hell".

That being said, if the list owner can't easily change this characteristic,
I will continue working around it. This is one of my favorite lists, even
with the quirky reply behavior.


Later,
Glen