----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. (Tony) Stalls" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] TR7 issue
Hello all...
I'm a newbie to the list and this is my first message to
the group, but I've corresponded to a few individuals
privately, mostly because I have the wisdom to know what I
don't know. The fact is that I'm in the process of
duplicating my TR7 rig from the 1980's and from the day I
broke open all those new factory sealed Drake boxes way
back then until I replaced it, it functioned trouble-free,
so what do I know about stuff that goes wrong or fixing
it? (Answer: Not much!)
I did share the remedy Ron Baker applied to my recently
acquired TR7 that in retrospect I should have posted to
the group. At the time, as far as I knew, it was
knowledge and would have been just a lot of QRN. I won't
be so concerned from now on.
Far be it for me, a newcomer, to criticize how the list is
run, but (here it comes) I don't understand why there's a
response to both an individual and to the list. I realize
that some may subscribe to a daily digest and maybe the
thought is the redundancy is so they'll get their reply
right away, but why burden the real-time members with
duplicate mailings?
Based on a time I was getting a hundred or so mailings
decades ago from several discussion lists, many of them
duplicates, I'd vote for the option to reply to the list,
or to the individual at the respondent's option.
73!
Tony Stalls, K4KYO
Arlington, VA
I think the reply function is set up by the list
administrator but it may vary with the mail client. In
Outlook Express if I choose "reply" for this list my message
goes only to the original poster, not the list. If I choose
"reply all" my message goes to both original poster and the
list unless I edit the To field to eliminate the original
poster.
I belong to other lists that work this way but the
majority of them are set up so that "reply" goes only to the
list and "reply all" goes to both list and original poster.
That can be edited if one wishes to reply off list. I much
prefer the latter set up but the administrators of the lists
using the former defend their choice. I have learned to be
careful to see who is getting replys and tailor them as
required. It did take me a while to figure out what was
going on since all of the lists subscribed to first used the
first method, i.e., "reply" went to the list.
I also agree about the second method sometimes providing
help to the orignal poster that does not go to the list
archive if one is kept. I think the arrangement of requiring
"reply all" to reply to a list can reduce the value of the
list as a forum for mutual discussion of subjects and can
also result in multiple messages to the original posters, or
to every participant in a particular post in some lists. IMO
this is counter to the whole idea of a mail reflector.
However, the list owners are the ones to decide and I have
just learned to work with whatever is there.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
[email protected]
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