Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: INformation needed
From: "Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@flash.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:26:30 -0700

But, Roger, can't a member "post blindly and seek private email
replies to the exclusion of the rest of the list?" And if a member or
nonmember opts to use the list in this way, what is the harm. I often see
posts that I wish had been sent privately! I avoid lists that I regard as
being overcontrolled.
Sincerely,
Joe Stephenson
- -----Original Message-----
From: Roger Beamon <roger@beamon.org>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 7:04 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: INformation needed


On 13 Feb 99, Jim Brick wrote, at least in part:

> You don't have to be a subscriber to "post" to the list, only to "receive"
> from the list. Anyone can send messages to
> leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us and it will go to all subscribers. But
> not the sender unless he/she is a subscriber.

My take here, Jim, is that it should not be that way. I don't think
that other lists to which I subscribe, are that way, Rollei
excepted, of course, since it, too, is Brian's. Submini-L list, for
sure, is not. How 'bout it Dan, is Hassy List so enabled?

It allows a non-subscriber to post blindly and seek private email
replies to the exclusion of the rest of the list. In this particular
case, no harm no foul, but, if the question were something of
general interest, it circumvents the raison d'être of a list.
- --
Roger
mailto:roger@beamon.org

     Soon as the evening shades prevail
     the moon takes up the wondrous tale,
     and nightly to the listening earth
     repeats the story of her birth.
                 -- Addison