[PCR-1000] list setup sucks (was best antenna)

[Dale Ireland]

That's baloney, this is a mailing list not a private chat, hitting reply to
all just sent this message to the list, and to you and to Ted who probably
doesn't give a damn. It is a waste of bandwidth, a waste of effort, to have
to reformat the message to have it go to the mailing list that you are
signed up for in the first place. you sign up for the list to get messages
to and from the list, not for individual chats. "reply all" to this post and
you just expand the nonsense.
Dale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pres Waterman [mailto:presw@112motors.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:44 PM
> To: Ted Gurley; Dale Ireland; PCR-1000@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [PCR-1000] list setup sucks (was best antenna)
>
>
>
>
> > I believe the list is set up right.
> >
> > Many times I see a post that I want to reply to sender and not the list.
> I
> > hit reply and the message ends up in his inbox immediately.  If I want
> > everyone to see it REPLY TO ALL goes to the sender and the list.
> >
> > Think about those who only get the digest of messages.
> >
> > My 2 cents.
>
>
> Here's another couple of pennies.
>
> We ARE talking about mailing lists, whose only function is to BROADcast
> messages to members who elected to be in the list. One person
> transmits, the
> repeater lets all hear it. It is exactly like if your HT lost its repeater
> offset after every transmission. You'd be mighty pissed if it had to be
> reset to "repeater offset ON" before EVERY transmission.
>
> The list SHOULD be set as "reply to all" to do its job. OTOH if
> you want to
> reply to the sender, all you would have to do, if it were a Yahoo!group
> list, would be to REPLY, then swipe your mouse over the "from" info, hot
> CTRL-C to COPY, and mouse up to the "TO" area and replace the list address
> with the one you wanted to send to, the original poster.
>
> Note that "reply to all" sends this to Dale, Tom, the list, and
> Dale and Tom
> again through the list!
>
> I have no idea what the comment about digests is, but I do know
> that since I
> forgot to hit "reply to all" as I post this, which would be the
> easy way to
> reply to the list, although the "sender" would get it twice ( once on
> simplex and another through the list ), I now have to copy this
> entire post,
> close this window, hit "reply to all", paste the text back in, and also
> should go up and delete the original poster's email out of the "to" field
> which I won't do...
>
> It shouldn't be this complicated, folks. Yahoo!groups has the
> system knocked
> cold. I hope they don't fail.
>
> Pres Waterman, W2PW
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>
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