protest (bleeding fingers?)

[Ken Kinman]

     I have no problem with the present set up, because I always assume
different lists will handle it differently.  I always check the address
before I send ANY e-mail.
      Anyway, I do it the "old-fashioned" way.  I retype TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
every time.  My fingers haven't started bleeding from the extra key-strokes.
  I think we Americans in particular take "convenience" and saving a few
seconds far too seriously.  A Russian mother having to stand in line for
hours to buy some food----now that's real inconvenience and a better reason
to protest.  And even that doesn't compare to the inconveniences most of our
ancestors had to put up with.
                   ------Ken Kinman
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>From: Bill Shear <BILLS at HSC.EDU>
>Reply-To: Bill Shear <BILLS at HSC.EDU>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: my protest
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:00:26 -0400
>
>A while ago I protested the setup of Taxacom, which prevents me (using
>Eudora) from replying to the list with the "reply" function.  Instead I
>have to create a new message and paste in the Taxacom address.
>
>I was told by the list manager that this was to prevent private messages
>for posters from going to the whole list.  (Of course, it now causes
>messages intended for the list to go only to the sender of the last
>message.) If I didn't like this setup, I could reconfigure my own mail
>program to reply direct to Taxacom.
>
>The catch is that nearly every other list I use (in fact, EVERY other list)
>has its reply function organized correctly.  If I change to suit the odd
>way Taxacom is configured, then I have to use the clumsy procedure to reply
>to all the other lists!
>
>Do any of the rest of you see this as a problem, and if so, might we all
>ask that our convenience should bear weight against the occasional careless
>lapse that sends a private message out to the list?
>
>Bill Shear
>Department of Biology
>Hampden-Sydney College
>Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
>(804)223-6172
>FAX (804)223-6374
>email<bills at hsc.edu>

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