[Leica] Re: INformation needed

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

This list has always been this way. That's why we get inquiries of "how do
I subscribe?". A former Lugger, Maiers(?) occasionally posts to the LUG
saying that he is not subscribed and to respond privately.

Jim 

At 06:46 AM 2/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>     
>