This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken, recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state.
One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a simple google search.
But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different replies telling the whole list, rather than the one person, how to find out what the acronym means.
Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was.
In which case, what is the purpose of having a public list at all?
Or should we coordinate our replies so that only one answer appears?
Or are you saying that OT questions should not be answered on the list, but privately, in which case somebody has to publish some rules for what precisely constitutes OT on a very general list such as this.
By such rules, your own post would be OT, so I guess I should have responded privately, or you should have just emailed Andrea privately in the first place.
I really must be missing something here.
Holly
Andrea, I'm sorry if you felt flogged by folks wanting the old modus operandi in place; you were right in the first place to have fixed the 'reply to'.
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