You're welcome.
Oh, my mistake ... I thought you were thanking the people who took the time
to read and respond to your question, not chastising us for making you have
to press the DELETE key a few extra times. Let me address your current concern.
Please consider that it is you, not the rest of us, who are new to this list.
We know (most of us, anyway) how majordomo lists work. We also know (many of
us, anyway) that sometimes this particular list cycles messages very
S...L...O...W...L...Y. At times, I've seen over a 12 hour delay between the
time I posted a message and the time I saw it on the list. In fact, the
reply I sent to you about your video card hasn't yet come back to me on the
list, and I sent it 5 hours ago.
Also, some people post questions here without first joining the list. You
might argue that such behavior is itself rude, and I tend to feel that way
myself, in most situations. But this is a list for beginners, so it's worth
cutting people some slack as regards "rookie errors".
Various of us respond differently to this reality. Some of us send replies
only to the list, pretty much sharing your view. Others of us (I'm in this
group) send the replies to the poster and the list, assuming that the poster
prefers a quick reply (and, to be honest, because it is easier than
hand-editing the headers in EVERY DAMN REPLY I make). Perhaps others reply
only privately (naturally, I wouldn't know, since thes messages would not
appear on the list).
Personally, when it is *you* asking *me* (and other like me) for help, I
find being on the receiving end of a lecture about how majordomo works to be
a bit insulting. Also, a technical note: if the list really wanted to
encourage the behavior you describe, it would make it easy by inserting a
Reply-to: header. I don't propose to open this argument -- for one thing,
there is nobody actually on this list who *can* change its behavior as
regards headers -- just to remind you that the list's default behavior is in
part the result of a technical dscision made by whoever set up the list.
I've obliged your procedural preferences this time. In the future, I'll try
hard to remember not to reply to your messages at all.
At 12:29 AM 7/13/00 -0300, Arlequín7W4= wrote:
>Hey, dudes !!
>
>Please, remember that we are subscribed to a Majordomo mail list!!
>
>We you post or reply a message, please send it ONLY to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I've received duplicated messages because some people put my electronic
>address into the `To:' line and put the list address into the `Cc:' or
>viceversa...
>
>Remeber that we all receive the mails posted to the list, so we don't have
>to carbon copy to the original sender.... ;-)
>
>We we reply a message, we must put into the `To;' line *only the list*
>electronic address, and then we all will receive the message !!!
--
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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