[Air-l] Answering questions on mailing lists & general mailing list notes

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

This would be... one of the situations where .... if I were a list  
admin... I would say 'over my dead body'.  Because air-l is not about  
the individual benefit, though we do wish to benefit everyone that  
contributes and participates, but air-l has been about the group of  
interested parties.  changing it to reply-to sender would take the  
communal spirit of the work away and make it into a request-for- 
help , which while a good format, is not the sort of thing that air-l  
has been, nor the thing that it is at its best.   At its best it is a  
group of people working together to establish a body of knowledge  
that we all share in common, and thus the 'common' or communal space  
overrides the individual.  at least, ... that is why we made an  
organization didn't we?
On Dec 15, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Richard Forno wrote:

>
>
> On 12/15/06 4:02 PM, "David Brake" <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Good points to mention, David.
>
>> 2) Please make sure (for your own sake as much as anyone's!) that
>> your private responses are sent directly to the person and not to the
>> list? If you hit 'reply' any response will go to the list
>
> As a list admin for several lists myself, may I suggest that our  
> illustrious
> list admins here consider changing the default AIR-L "reply-to" so  
> that such
> replies go directly to the sender of the original note as opposed  
> to the
> entire list?   That way, if you hit "reply-to-all" you know  
> everyone will
> get it, but if you hit "reply-to" (as most folks do automatically in
> responding to e-mail) it will only go to the sender of the note you're
> responding to.   Granted, we *want* to facilitate discussion here,  
> but it's
> just a suggestion offered up for consideration.
>
> I know in my case a few times I've sent stuff meant as a reply to  
> someone
> and watched it going to everyone.  :(  Many times, both here and  
> elsewhere,
> I go so far as to place something like "Off-List" in the subject  
> line so my
> intended recipient(s) know it's not coming from the list.
>
> Anyway, just a thought.
>
> -rf
>
>
>
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jeremy hunsinger
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Pratt Institute
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