From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Fri Mar 15 17:47:51 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 16 Mar 2002 01:47:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 73293 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2002 01:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Mar 2002 01:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta05-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.45) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 01:47:50 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.253.90.236]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020316014749.FOCG7206.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:47:49 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] lojban.org transfer, reprise. Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:46:22 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Craig: > There are times for replying to the list, and times for replying to the > poster. Consider the two scenarios: > > A. No munging. > Reply to list: click reply-all, remove one name from the to box on your > e-mail system. > Reply to poster: click reply > > B. Munging. > Reply to list: click reply. > Reply to poster: click reply, select the list address, type in the poster's > address and hope you get it right. > > Assuming that you do any replying to the poster, scenario A is better. That > is not a reasonable assumption, for some people, but for many of us it is. Scenario C: No mungeing. Forget to click reply-all and message is lost, not seen by the list. Click reply-all and annoy people by forgetting to delete the sender's name and so sending them duplicate copies. For software without reply-all, endure the nuisance of always having to readdress replies to the list, and get so much into the habit of doing this that even private messages accidentally get sent to the list. Non-mungeing is a John Cowan fetish and clearly dates him to an older generation of net old timers, who joined the net at a time when joining the net required a bit of nous. We must tolerate unmunged Lojban list, as it is right and proper to indulge the foibles of the venerable. --And.