[ICOM] Too much extra messages

[Dick Flanagan]

At 02:37 PM 2/21/2005, someone wrote:
 >    Again, why is the Icom reflector configured differently from say for
 >example the Collins reflector?  Just my 2 cents worth.

The intent of the way the ICOM list is configured is for a standard "Reply" 
(not a "Reply to ALL") to go back to the list. While it is difficult to 
explain why that is better to someone who has been bitten by that feature 
once or twice (as most of us have), I have noted time and time again that 
some of the most informative exchanges on the reflector have come about by 
one person responding to someone else's response -- whether it is to 
correct or expand or disagree or simply reinforce that previous response -- 
and then someone else responds to that response and so on and on. . . .

While this feature tends to encourage topic drift, if I can stay on top of 
things that should make MY job more difficult, not yours, and I obviously 
feel it benefits the overall signal-to-noise ratio or I wouldn't encourage it.

The ICOM list has worked this way for several years and it has become one 
of the most valuable ICOM resources on the net, due in no small part to the 
encouragement of multiple responses fostered by the "Respond To List" default.

So I truly appreciate your suggestion, but there really is a method to our 
madness.

This topic is closed.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org