Re: List Ettiquette
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > We keepers of the in-line posting flame are a shrinking minority,
> > now dominant only on Very Geeky lists.
> >
>
> I have to agree. It's sad, but it's true.
>
> But this is not only Gmail's fault. Long before it existed The Proper
> Way of replying was dying. Outlook and Hotmail (which are so bad that
> even the most geeky user probably could not send a properly formatted
> e-mail with them) are probably to blame.
>
> One thing, however, that is entirely Gmail's fault is showing e-mails as
> a list, not a tree with ramifications. Along with the "reply" box in the
> bottom, this causes unaware users to reply to the last message, even if
> they are replying to what was said in a previous message. (Not a problem
> in this list, but I see this happen in other places.)
The horrors of GMail pale in comparison to the damage that can be done to a
mailing list by one person replying from Yahoo mail. I can't even describe the
carnage, it's too horrifying.
--
J
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