[Gusdev-gusdev] mailing list protocol?

[Steve F. <sfi...@pc...>]

hey gusdevers-

i wanted to throw out there a proposal for how we can all use this 
mailing list, possibly to best effect.  comments and tomatoes encouraged.

my idea is:
  1. when responding to mail on the mail list, address your response 
*only* to the news group.  thus, if you hit "reply all", remove all the 
recipients who are not gusdev-gusdev.  This gets rid of the redundant 
mail traffic.

  2. unless your response is really of no interest to the group, avoid 
providing private answers.  this way, everybody will know that the 
question has been answered and won't spend their time providing another 
one, and, the answer will be available on the archive for future inquiries.

 3. don't be too shy about re-subjecting a thread if it has veered off 
the original topic

steve