[R-390] Subject: Off list posts

[Barry Hauser]

Just want to be clear -- I favor voluntarily clicking on "reply all" or the
equivalent -- most of the time -- where appropriate.  I'm not clamoring for
changing the default configuration of the list so that simply clicking reply
will post to the list.  Don't care much for that.  Too many private replies
get posted which adds a degree of awkwardness -- and often reticence to
reply at all.  The attempt to automate or force participation tends to
backfire.  I agree with Les -- no mind control moderator/nazi .. or soup
nazi, for that matter.  Next thing you know, we're all forced to join a
kazoo band.

Barry

Bob wrote (in reply to Les)

> Hi,
>
> I hadn't exactly considered this to be mind control :)
>
> If this is an issue for a significant majority of the people on the list
> then why should we keep it the way it is?
>
> If it's only an issue for a few of us then by all means leave it the way
it is.
>
> The point is to make the easy thing to do the right thing to do most of
the time.

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Les wrote:
> > Let's leave it up to the individual guys, we don't need a mind control
> > moderator/nazi......
> >
> > We need to think for ourselves, or we might be in trouble.
> >
> > Les Locklear