From: Arnaud K. <ax...@sa...> - 2003-05-13 18:55:22
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Hi Steve Sounds find to me but re. 1. I would keep the main recipient to specify who it is adressed to and cc gusdev mailing list. Arnaud Selon Steve Fischer <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 > > |