Message-ID: <x2emcyipnd.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 1999-12-07T18:15:02Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Reply to list policy
In-Reply-To: Martyn Plummer's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:00:32 +0100 (CET)"
Martyn Plummer <plummer at iarc.fr> writes:
> I wonder if it isn't time to change the reply-to-list policy of R-help
> and adopt the alternative convention of replying to the author and asking
> him/her to summarize to the list.
>
> Recently R-help has been too busy for me to keep up with. There were
> quite a few identical responses in the "Finding indices with a certain
> property" thread, rather than an extended discussion. I think this
> illustrates the need for a reply to author policy.
>
> Does anybody else feel the same way?
Not me.
- people often don't get around to summarizing
- you don't see whether anyone else replied, so either people get zero
responses or responses from everyone. Todays minor storm was an
exception to that effect: people replying before responses of others
got in.
- it is manageable with filtering and threading. (e.g. procmail or
gnus)
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