Brandon J. Van Every scripsit: > I've never cared about contract programming, because I'm too saddled > with performance concerns to worry about that.
"If it doesn't have to work, I can make it as fast as you want." > Oops. The problem, in my point of view, is that you Unix guys are > always setting up mailing lists to be "Reply To Sender." Nothing to do with Unix; the convention much predates the use of Unix to run the world's mailing lists. > So I have to manually type the name of the list every time I reply. Use the "Reply All" button. (The owner will get two copies, like you are getting of this message; big deal.) > Windows guys set up their mailing lists to be "Reply To List." Until the first time that a *highly* confidential reply to the author, possibly libeling another list participant, goes back to the list. > Windozers go for what makes sense to the common man; "Reply" means > "send it back to where it came from." "Reply" means "reply to one (the author)"; "Reply All" means "reply to all (the list)". What could be clearer? > I will wager, furthermore, that a default of Reply-To-Author is a relic > of a time when net curmudgeons didn't want you "wasting everyone's > time" with your idle chit-chat. Force you to think about replying to > the entire group, the entire world community, all the resources wasted > on all those servers, oh my! It isn't "all those servers", it's "all those brains". Why should 500 or 5000 mailing-list participants have to read (even enough to delete) your personal, private, of-no-concern-to-anybody-else response? -- Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the John Cowan portrait of Mona Lisa good if I desire to see [EMAIL PROTECTED] it? Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical, http://ccil.org/~cowan epical or dramatic? If a man hacking in fury at a block of wood make there an image of a cow, is that image a work of art? If not, why not? --Stephen Dedalus _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users