[1000mp] List Software

Fri, 3 May 2002 15:23:06 -0700

John,

what a pleasure to see somebody actually taking responsibility for his own
actions, it's all too rare these days.

Jim, AF6O

----- Original Message -----
From: "John E Bastin, K8AJS" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: [1000mp] List Software

> At 16:04 -0400 05/03/2002, Jeff Maass wrote:
> >
> >Yes, you can manually check where each email is going, but people
> >who do something (like replying to emails) several times a day tend
> >to do it automatically. One assumes that an email that is "Reply"ed
> >to is going to the individual in the "From:" field, not some other
address.
>
> I subscribe to many mailing lists, usually sending a number of
> replies each day, and I have no problem with spending the few extra
> seconds to look at the "To:" line on my message before I send it,
> just to make sure it's going where I desire.
>
> I think it's nothing but a common courtesy to the recipients of my
> e-mail, to make sure the mail goes to the proper destination.
>
> >
> >Software should reduce required manual intervention, not increase it.
>
> Yes, and someday, with developments in fuzzy logic and artificial
> intelligence, we'll have computers that know that we really didn't
> mean to hit that wrong key, and will do the thing we really meant to
> do, instead of the thing we told it to do.
>
> Until then, though, we're going to have to put forth that little
> extra effort to ensure accuracy of our actions.
>
> 73,
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