On 21/04/10 11:17, Steve Tompkins-MacQueen wrote: > 3 points to make. > 1) I understand all of the problems, but I am one of thouse who "start new > emails as a reply" becous I can't deal with addresses (my dislexer....) I > know that methord 1 is not as sercure a option but when sending a private > message I always cut and past the privat address so as not to send privat > e-mail to the list. >
I don't see that as a problem (you do have a good excuse anyway). The problem is more the reverse: that people will be replying, but instead of hitting "reply" will start a new message. I don't see this as a show stopper either, given that this is a low traffic group (it would be a real nuisance on a high traffic group though). > 2) Reciving two copys of evthing is a hasel and confusing. > A good email client should help you here: both messages should have the same message ID so the email client should be able to avoid you seeing them both. That said, I don't know any that handle this well. Suggestions? Again, to be clear: it's only replies to messages you send you may get twice. Eg if I had done a "reply to all" for this message, you'd see my reply directly to you and again as it went to the list. This would happen even with the list as it is if I hit "reply to all", although the change would make it more likely. > 3) There is to much "please mister make it safe for me" and not anoth "I will > tack my own responsiblity to be safe" > This isn't really what this is about. There are standard ways of doing things, but the PLUG list reverses them, which means that learned behaviour needs to be changed here. It only really affects people who use multiple lists (which I do, so I am biased). Imagine if you visited a website which asked for your password before your username. You'd probably find yourself entering your username in the password box and your password (in full view) in the username box. The problem wasn't that you were careless, it's that the website did things the opposite way from "the norm". The end result was still that anyone stood behind you would now know your password. Put it another way: Suppose I were to personally email you and everyone else on the list in one message (without using the mailing list, ie putting all of the addresses into the email manually). If you wanted to reply to just me, you'd hit reply. If you wanted to reply to everyone, you'd hit "reply to all". With this mailing list, this behaviour is reversed, and if it seems natural the way it is it's just because you've got used to it this way! > All that sead it shows I like methord 1, but if people want methord 2 then > so be it and "I will have to deal with it" > I do appreciate your comments and this isn't my decision to make, I just get to implement it. I will also deal with the majority decision whichever it is. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
