On 2/18/2011 13:11, Mac wrote:
On 2/18/2011 2:44 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mac<[email protected]>
wrote:
I may have to unsubscribe from this list. Not because you responded
twice,
accidentally, while trying to help. That was fine and of little
consequence.
However, I got an automated "out of office" response from someone
else and
that got me thinking "what if I get hit with that during a peak
vacation
time for somewhere?" Eek, my poor, filled up mail server!
If you view the email headers you'll see a "Precedence: list". Any
vacation responder that replies to an email with this in the headers
is mis-configured. I'm not aware of any popular ones that are
mis-configured by default.
May be a forum would be better? If the regulars think the upside of
a forum
outweighs the downside (not my call, just my 2 cents).
in other groups I'm in that do have forums, the regulars are only
regulars because of the mailing list, as forums require forethought to
go read and reply instead of it being dumped in your face as posted
like email does. Forums that have list integration, like FUDForum,
are a decent compromise, but are far from perfect.
If this were a forum and not a list, I'd almost certainly have not
read or replied to your message.
Interestingly, I am only subscribed to the daily digest, yet I got an
individual email from you personally to my address rather than waiting
to see it in the digest.
As I read this via NNTP when I have a special interest, I can reply to
the list to make my point early. Doing email list interaction seems to
be a lost art! That makes my 4 cents (2 + 2) :)
Please, this is not an attempt at a flame war or trolling. I am just
pointing out that this may be a relic of the past.
Best regards,
Mac
forums are the relics of the past, direct integration with your desktop
that the mailing list provides far outweighs the pretty interface of the
forum.
I personally subscribe to enough mailing lists that I can't keep up with
them all in my inboxen, so I set up a special address for them, and now
I get all my mail at home every night, but don't get a rush of messages,
nor a digest that makes it difficult to respond to a single message.
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