On 19 Mar 00 at 2:41, L.D. Best wrote:
>> The problem I have seen in too many mailing lists is that novice
>>sends "list reply" to individual, and then individual has to forward it to
>>list. That slows things down, and also gets people pixxed off because
>>newbie doesn't even know that list response goes to list!
>>
>> If you don't want people replying to the list, then remove the "reply to"
>>line on the mail! However, what good is a list that never gets any
>>messages? That would solve slow server problem you mention below ...
Pegasus for DOS does this also with mime format digests. I have to
remember to manually put the list address in the message before
sending.
>> This in not realistic. The way the list is manageable now for many of
>>us is that we can scan subject line and delete some without reading. If we
>>are forced to digest mode, many of us simply will not have the time to try
>>to separate message from quote from next message down through 30 or 40
>>messages. And you well know that what the subject line is has nothing to do
>>with content of message many times.
If Arachne digest supports mime format, those users with Pegasus for
DOS will get each message separately. I admit this is not much help
to Insight users.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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