I totally disagree with what Jon said, and I do find it necessary to send this to the list, since this is discussing the very nature of the list.
I have no idea what the nature of Jon's crossword list is, but as far as discussion lists go, the discussion is "public" to the list. And with the Finale list in particular. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ---------- Von: Jon Delfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:24:22 -0400 An: Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Re: [Finale] ot, was Re: Thoughts on Mac-Sibelius 2.0 Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 16.04.2002 16:05 Uhr, Jon Delfin wrote > > >> PS This missing reply to address is a real nuissance! > > > > Easy enough to hit Reply All when wanting to respond to the list. It seems to > > me that a large number of responses to the list would be better directed to > > the > > original poster rather than to the list at large, and this will be facilitated > > if Reply defaults just to the poster. > > What point, then, is having a list to start with? Strange discussions where > you shut out others after the beginning, so they never hear the rest of > it... > > In case you are refering to off-topic discussions, I think we have been > through this several times. Changing headers will not change anything in > this respect. Based on my limited experience, I have to disagree. The only other list to which I subscribe (for crossword puzzle constructors and editors) has a Reply default to the individual poster. A specific effort has to be made to reply to the list. Accordingly, the amount of detoured discussions, not to mention repeated responses (how many postings have we had to endure today that all basically said the same thing?), gets reduced dramatically. And don't get me started on ad hominem attacks and misunderstandings that result from crossed messages. By the way, when I replied to your original posting, did you happen to notice that you didn't receive two messages? I deleted your address and left the List address. It took less time to do that than to type this sentence. Really, Johannes, I'm not trying to change your mind. I'll take the list and the default reply either way. And the next time Andrew and David and Crystal start sniping at each other, I'll wish they'd "take it outside" and hit the delete key. Like I do now. :-) Jon _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
