[ale] ALE reply-to changes needed?? -- VOTE @ www.cade.org/ale_reply.php

ChangingLINKS.com x3 at ChangingLINKS.com
Sun Apr 13 01:59:59 EDT 2003


Family Fued: "Survey says?: [X][X] <error tone sound>"

Both polls were done on your server, right? 
The other one was 328 to 8, and currently it shows 12 to 3. Sorry, but if you 
believe we should change the format, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.

Drew

On Sun April 13 2003 00:34, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On 12 Apr 2003, Joe wrote:
> > "ChangingLINKS.com" <x3 at ChangingLINKS.com> writes:
> > > I move that we use the Cade voting system, and close the polls.
> > > Currently the vote is 320 (reply to list) vs. 8 (reply to poster).
> >
> > That's truly bizarre, since it seems to me that the list traffic
> > has weighed pretty heavy on the "reply to poster" side, and
> > there are only about fifteen people who regularly post to the
> > list. Surely the lurking masses don't give two horseapples about
> > this issue; so where the heck did *328* votes come from???
>
> The 328 lurkers want to make damn sure they get to see the postings of the
> 15 regular posters. The reply to all option sucks, because you end up
> getting multiple copies of the same message when folks forget to trim out
> the original sender(s), which is the case more often than not. If you're
> too busy to keep up with ALE for several days (often the case for me
> lately), it can make a confusing mess out of things as the list traffic
> is pretty high on it's own. Most mailers will allow you to either ignore
> the Reply-To field, or ask you first. So what's the big deal again?

-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
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