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Re: Responding off list
Jesse S. Cook III (jcook@AWOD.COM)
Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:07:26 -0400
owner-ane using -f
>From: ECOLING@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 02:06:06 -0400
>To: ANE@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu
>Subject: Re: Responding off list
>Sender: owner-ane@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu
>Precedence: bulk
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>Some messages, even if they are relevant to the overall topic of an email
>list, create a lot of unnecessary message traffic...Especially when seeking
>answers to a question, a lot of people respond who do NOT know or have the
>answer (admit that they do not), and then one or two respond who do. Given
>the difficulty all of us have in disciplining ourselves to NOT speak up when
>it is not useful to the larger community, there is very good reason in many
>cases to ask that responses go to the author of the first message, not to
>the whole list...
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>There are probably more cases where such a noise-reduction technique should
>have been applied but was not, than there are cases where someone lost
>something significant by having it omitted...
>
>This means that messages are directed to those who are
>interested, and not to those who do not want the extra noise in the
>communications channel...
>
>Lloyd Anderson
Jesse S. Cook III E-Mail: jcook@awod.com
Post Office Box 40984 or
Charleston, SC 29485 USA 201-9573@mcimail.com
"Our attitude toward others is not determined by who *they* are;
it is determined by who *we* are."
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