while I agree with many of the points in that article, I've found it often penalizes members of a community who participate the most strongly by having them: a) receive a lot of private e-mail that should go to the list, meaning they have to explain to a lot of people the purpose of lists and what they're good for (or make a page like http://danga.com/lists.bml ) b) accidentally reply to individuals and then either have to curse and resend to the list, or perhaps not realize it, not realize the answer they spent time on won't be shared with the community and archived online so the next time someone has the same question, they might quickly find the answer.
Personally, I created a separate e-mail address that is set to automatically "Reply to all" just so that I avoid problem b on any mailing list I'm active on. It's the only solution I've come up with, and it gives me many of the behaviors that the article complains about (and I like) without the problem of munging. I haven't found many mail clients that let you say that you want clicking on the reply button to do "Reply to all" by default though.... In my ideal world, there would be no munging, editors could be set to automatically include addresses in the List-Post header when I hit reply on a list (so I wouldn't need a separate email address), and all scripts that read pdb files would understand insertion codes, but I can't have everything. I don't think it's possible to solve (a) without munging, but I'm not active enough to have received many non-personal messages off-list, so I can't complain about that being a problem. -David On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, now I got two private mails, which I think should've gone to the > list :) Otherwise, I might even get more, and nobody else would know > whereabout the discussion was heading. And it was about discussion, > not only about personal enlightenment, although that was a main point > for me. A quite good response was from John Archie, who sent me a link > I'll bounce here to the list: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > It poses some compelling arguments, but you should've pressed 'reply-to-all' > ;) > > Thanks anyway. > > Cheers, > > Tsjerk > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Justin, >> >>> I can change it, but there are some good reasons for leaving it as is. >> >> Can you expand on that? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tsjerk >> >> >> -- >> Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. >> >> Computational Chemist >> Medicinal Chemist >> Neuropharmacologist >> > > > > -- > Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. > > Computational Chemist > Medicinal Chemist > Neuropharmacologist > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
