On 09:26 AM 7/8/02, J C Lawrence wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 14:43:16 -0700
>JC Dill <inet-list@vo.cnchost.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I've been using usenet too long, but I expect people who post or
>> email to a discussion group to always expect replies to go back to the
>> discussion group (if said replies are of general interest to the
>> group), and if they want a courtesy copy (or a private response) to
>> explicitly *ask* for it in the body of their message.
>
>Actually in netnews this is explicitly controlled by the headers. As a
>result a netnews poster can trivially and explicitly control the default
>distribution of followups and replies to his posts. He can effectively
>force them to a different list of newsgroups, to email and thus off
>netnews, etc.
Again, while this functionality exists in *some* news posting software,
most users haven't a clue how to use it. Witness the numerous "un$ubscribe
me" posts by someone who sub$cribed to a newsgroup and can't figure out how
to un$sub.
>Again, the shame is that the mass market netnews clients I've looked at
>don't reveal or do much to support this fact (the Unix ones do for some
>odd reason).
Either those writing the software will adapt their software to better meet
these presently unmet needs, or those dealing with the users of these
programs will adapt to the present users, their skill sets, and the tools
they have to work with today.
I believe that as list managers, it's our job to do the later.
jc
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