Steve Irick wrote: > > All: > > I view the Listowner as neutral and send this email as a balance for > consideration to those who requested the change. My mail is pretty evenly > divided between individual and group, most of it is technical. This mix > benefits from the capability of my email programs ( I use several) that all > have "reply, reply to all and address list". I make a similarity to this > dilemma by the standardization of the valve on the left being the hot water > and the valve on the right being the cold water. I would prefer that > wherever I traveled that when I turned on the valve on the left that I > would get hot water and not cold.
Take care, you could very easily get burned if travelling around the world! :-) I would say both work, as it works with cars in England where they are in the right side when they are on left side while elsewhere they are in the right side when they are in the right side! Now, my preferred mode is replying to the sender only, not to the list. This has several obvious advantage and only a very minor disadvantage: 1) Most of the time we DO want do respond to the sender only. It is true that sometimes people do not know it, but a good observation will clearly show it. For instance, request for information (any information) should almost always be responded to the sender only, not to list. Agressive answers should be sent to the sender only; reprimands should be sent to the sender only... 2) It avoids so many "sorry, I wanted to send to the sender only" 3) It forces us to DECIDE if our answers benefit the whole list or not. And, if we decide, we have to take responsability for what we do (as opposed to what happens when we do things "by accident") 4) We can very easily correct ourselves with no damages if we intended to send to the whole list but sent to the sender only. The reverse is disastrous. Now, the only price we pay for having so many benefits (and others I have not listed) is to have to type "sundial" or any other nickname we find fit so our mailer can complete it for us with the full address. Very small price, indeed. - fernando > > Thanks > > Steve > Yorktown VA USA > > - -- REDUZIR, REUSAR, RECICLAR -- Dever de todos, amor aos que virão REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE -- Everybody's duty, love to those who are to come Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9" S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47º 49' 58.6" W 19º 37' 57.0" S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45º 17' 13.6" W -
