Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >Ok folks. > >When someone sends a message to the listserve they usually give it a subject >(like Rant). When someone else replies to the first person's message it's >subject becomes Re: Rant. This system makes it easy to follow the discussion >about the first question. > >If someone does this (and it was done recently-by two different people-with >a message I sent to the listserve) and the originator of a message is trying >to follow the thread about her/his question then all of a sudden there's an >entirely different conversation going on and the original questioner is left >wondering what's going on. > >It is confusing, not to mention rude, to use someone else's question to post >your own question on an entirely different subject. > >Just in case you don't know the address of this listserve it is: > >macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > >Harry, > > >Harry Jacobson-Beyer >Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > >http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ >What a strange, long, trip it is! > >remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast >you go coming down! > > > While we're on the subject, does the group have a preference on where the reply to an e-mail should go? Before or after the original message? I would imagine it should go after so you would have to pass the rest of the thread to get to the response. It would be easier to see if the response was a continuation to the thread, or a new topic.
-- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
