On 26 Aug 2005 at 15:13, dhbailey wrote: > Lighten up on Henry. Maybe he is doing his "job" just the way he sees > it should be done, and perhaps you and Darcy are just on the wrong > list. > > If you want a list moderator who looks at every message and approves > it before it is posted so you don't have to hit the delete key,
When you're happy to reduce it to the most absurd alternatives, this is the kind of answer you come up with. Proper management of an *unmoderated* list (which this is) involves unsubscribing users who are polluting the list, and changing list settings sensibly. Henry is doing neither of these things in the last month or so, and this makes the list less easy to use. If rectifying these two problems were in some way difficult, there'd be no grounds for complaints, but both problems can be quite easily fixed with about 5 minutes of the list owner's time. Registering dissatisfaction with that neglect of responsibility does not imply that one would prefer a moderated list -- it's intellectually dishonest to even introduce that as a response to the complaints about what looks like dereliction of duty to many of us. Furtunately, I am not bothered to any significant degree by either of the problems. My email client makes it extremely easy for me to selectively reply to any one or any arbitrary combination of addresses in the header of the list posting I'm replying to, so I have no problem with the bad Reply-To. I also don't see much problem with the 2 or 3 autoresponses per day from the moron who went on vacation (I don't find autoresponders useful for real people -- if someone's not there, I don't need a response to every message I send to them telling me so; a smart autoresponder would only send one such message to each address, but there doesn't seem to be such a thing), as he's on Digest. But if he were subscribed to the whole list, it would be a *very* bad problem. So, in this case, the damage from Henry's neglect is minimal (though the Reply-To is pretty inconvenient for those with email clients that don't make it easy to pick which addresses you want to reply to), but it is, nonetheless, still neglect of his responsibilities. It's pretty consistent with past history, though, as it took months for Henry to "fix" the original Reply-To behavior (which we are now back to) after the list migrated to Mailman. I complained about that back then and was roundly condemned for it. It's nice to see now that I'm not the only one who thinks things are not being terribly well- managed. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
