On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> If I post to the list, I expect a reply via the list. Getting two replies >> is annoying, especially if I don't realise the private one is a duplicate >> and reply to it before checking the list. One of the main points of a list >> is that it is a public discussion, archived for all to see, fragmenting >> conversations into private mail defeats that point. > > > Precisely, except that I'm not as annoyed as some of you seem to be. > Part of the way a mailing list works is that there is always discontent > about the way the mailing list works. This hasn't changed much, if at > all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985.
Things especially fun when it is both a mailing list and a newsgroup.
