From yvonnel@netcom.com Wed May 3 14:04:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA26377; Wed, 3 May 95 14:04:44 -0700 Received: from netcom8.netcom.com by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA06347; Wed, 3 May 95 14:04:43 -0700 Received: from [192.216.49.25] by netcom8.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id OAA13915; Wed, 3 May 1995 14:03:46 -0700 X-Sender: yvonnel@netcom8.netcom.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 14:13:12 -0800 To: yoda@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, Pac Ten Mailing List From: yvonnel@netcom.com (Yvonne Lee) Subject: Re: I LIKE the Change in the list Configuration! Hey, Cut it out, Sean! You know I'm not supposed to agree with you. Actually, I'm sending this message to see whether my mailer's reply-to-all command will correctly put in the Pac-10 mailing list address. It does. Most mailers also have this command. I know elm does. Using the reply-to-all command should solve your problem, Ed. At 11:53 AM 5/3/95, Sean Yoda Rouse wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >As the subject says, I like the change that Cliff made to the list's >configuration (and I also was one of the people who requested the change). >However, Dr. Edmund West wrote: > > Given the opportunity, I would have voted for not changing that > feature. In my opinion the most useful reply address is the one that: > > (1) causes my comments to go to the list by default (I suspect that > most people reply to the whole list a lot more often than to the > individual), > >I disagree that this makes the pac-10 list address MOST useful as the reply >address. I KNOW what the list address is (and even have it aliased to >reduce typing). It's easy to change the address to one which I know. > >On the other-hand, If I'm replying to an individual, I rarely know that >user's address. It is much more useful to automatically have an address >that I don't know, than to be given one which I already know. > >In the current configuration, when I want to reply to the entire list, all >I have to do is change the "To" field to the pac10 address. Replying to >an individual is even easier. > >In the old configuraton, while replying to the list required no effort, >replying to an individual required several steps. > >Overall, I see less effort expended in the current configuration. > > > (2) allows me to file the message in a folder named "pac-10" with > one key stroke, rather than having to erase the sender's name and > keying in "pac-10" in its entirety. > >Your mail software might support command aliases...consult your manual. > >Sean "Yoda" Rouse yoda@csua.berkeley.edu http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~yoda >=============================================================================== > "I'm not going to watch the America's Cup until they put > cannons on the boats and start shooting at one another" > -- The Fabulous Sports Babe Yvonne Lee (yvonnel@netcom.com) ######################################## Stanford - 1994-95 NCAA Champions Water polo, women's swimming, women's volleyball, men's gymnastics .