my protest

[Jürg Sonderegger]

At 16:00 11/08/99 -0400, Bill Shear wrote:
>The catch is that nearly every other list I use (in fact, EVERY other list)
>has its reply function organized correctly.

At 15:09 11/08/99 -0800, Doug Yanega wrote:
>Most significantly, however, is that it is configured this way NOT to
>prevent accidental personal messages, but to prevent those godawful
>automated "out-of-office" and other bounceback notices from being posted to
>the entire list. 
>...
>The *correct* default setting for mailing lists is what Taxacom has now,
>for precisely this reason.

I'm really happy that TAXACOM is cofigured as it is, because I read already
a lot of "godawful", private mails that were sent using the "Reply" 
function together with mails of lists which are not configured as TAXACOM.
An e-mail list should be used consciously!
... as it is explained by Ken Kinman who wrote:
>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.
As other responses have shown most of the actual e-mail programs provide
facilities to respond to taxacom without using the "create new message 
then paste Taxacom address"-strategy.

Jurg Sonderegger

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA
Grupo Técnico de Informática - GTI
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