[nycbug-talk] netiquite...finally OT

[Pete Wright]

whew...think i finally got a new thread going on this


On May 21, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Pete Wright wrote:

> Sunny Dubey wrote:
>
>>
>> I think the purpose of such a public mailing list is to develop 
>> discussion and a community.  Therefore the more lively traffic this 
>> list gets only helps attain that goal.  I haven't been on nycbug-talk 
>> for too long, and yet I've already had posts in which the person 
>> simply hit reply to me, but not to the list.  And this is no good, 
>> because what the person replied to me with might have been great 
>> interest or the spark plug for another interesting thread.
>
>
>
> there was a pretty good thread regarding netiquite early on.  for me 
> it's all 6 of one, half a dozen of the other(technically speaking).  i 
> would search the archives, around the feb time frame, to see what was 
> discussed.  i tend to agree with Dan tho, all of my BSD lists and most 
> of my other lists adhere to this behaviour.  maybe it's just another 
> emacs v. vi flame fest.



I'm probably subscribed to about 40 lists, and I can only think of 2 
that do reply-to munging...

-bob


again, as i said before "for me it's all 6 of one, half a dozen of 
another technically wise."

http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2004-February/000628.html
this is the thread i was refering to.

-p

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