On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Martin Renold wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:34:02PM +0900, Birkir A. Barkarson wrote: > > [..] This usually guarantees that the reply goes to the list instead of > > the poster unless explicitly changed. The only negative affect I can > > seem from this is that people who don't subscribe to the list won't get > > a response. > > There is another one. If you want to reply in private, it is easy to send > the reply to the whole list by mistake. This is way more annoying / > embarrassing than the other mistake.
Which is of course, exactly what happened here, right Martin?</wink>. Making people work a little harder to reply to the list, usually makes them think a little harder about where their reply belongs also. That typically has a very significant effect on the signal to noise ratio. Meaning people who expect to see discussion on the wacom tools for linux don't find that mixed up with discussion of list admin policies and email clients, and people telling other people their posts are off topic, and yet more people pointing out the irony of off topic posts about off topic posts ... ;-) Email is pretty durable stuff, private conversations that turn into something of interest to a list, can always be forwarded to one at any point in time. Cheers! Ron fwiw, I'll pay my penance for my contribution to the noise soon I hope, we're still waiting on Etch to pop out of the freezer, then I can get a newer release into the dist again for those who've been itching for one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
