agree - most of us can sort out the wheat from the chaff, and it was - for
me - difficult to remember how to get a reply to all the forum members -
this way it goes out to all automatically, and our seed goes to fertile
ground rather than a stony single site.
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Mycroft <frankm@clara.net>
Subject: Re: forum settings
> Dear Rowland
>
> Yes, I know this will go to the forum, possibly along with 449 others, but
> because most of us haven't mentioned our preferences before you can't
assume
> we are 'a few'! Only a very few of the subscribers to the forum are on my
> personal address book, and most of the people one might wish to reply to
> never will be. I find it much easier to remember how to send a message to
> the forum (a single address, which is in my address book), than to any one
> of 450 subscribers, for whom , to me, the easy answer is to click the
> 'Reply to' button, when we can read the mail we are replying to as we
write.
> I don't care what other forums (?fora?) do, lets do what most of us think
is
> best.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Europa Club Membership Secretary" <europa-club@rowil.clara.net>
> Subject: forum settings
>
>
> > I've let John Cliff handle most of the recent comments about how the
> > list is configured, and I hope I'm not treading on his toes by
> > mentioning the following points.
> >
> > The Europa Forum is intended for messages likely to be of general
> > interest to _all_ Europa people. It has never purported to be a
> > substitute for the maintenance of a personal e-mail address book of
> > one's regular correspondents.
> >
> > It is configured in the same way as pretty much all the other e-mail
> > lists around - that is, the default is to reply to the list. On none
> > of the many discussion-style e-mail lists that I subscribe to (about
> > 7 at present I think - I usually read {except for the spam} and deal
> > with about 100 e-mail messages per day) have I seen any requests by
> > users for a "reply-to-sender" default.
> >
> > When the Europa list was first set up, it conformed to the standard
> > model, and I cannot recall a single complaint about it in the early
> > years. It's very unfortunate that because of the limitations of
> > out-of-date server software at Aviators Network, the list was then
> > re-configured in a non-standard way, leading to the formation of
> > inappropriate habits by users over some years.
> >
> > I'm sorry that for a few of the 450-odd subscribers to the list, the
> > recent changes have been uncomfortable, and we hope that things will
> > seem less awkward as familiarity grows. For those who are using an
> > e-mail system provided by their employer and have little control over
> > its configuration, perhaps you should consider moving recreational
> > activities to a home computer where you can choose what to install.
> > It's hard to envisage exactly how any modification will be received
> > by all those affected, but we believe we have (in time stolen from
> > Europa-building) set things up to give the greatest benefit to the
> > majority, while minimising future maintenance requirements. (Of
> > course if there are 450 replies to this post all disagreeing, it
> > might be necessary to reconsider!)
> >
> > We also remember that perhaps one day eager volunteers will arise,
> > offering to take over the administrative tasks we currently perform
> > for the Club, and we are trying to leave the shop as clean and tidy
> > as possible for those new incumbents.
> >
> > As for a separate list for fliers only, I hope that does not happen,
> > personally wish to know about all aspects of the Europa experience.
> > If people get into the habit of prefixing their flying-topic message
> > subject lines with "flying" then anyone who wants to see only those
> > posts can arrange a filter (or message handler) to bin all the rest -
> > and those who are not interested in flying (what!) can do the
> > reverse. Of course, some messages impinge on both building and
> > flying, so I cannot be sure what to recommend in that case as one or
> > other of the filters mentioned above would not work as desired ....
> > but certainly choosing informative subject lines is a great help to
> > all users.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> > | Rowland Carson Europa Club Membership Secretary
> > | Europa 435 G-ROWI PFA #16532 EAA #168386
> > | e-mail <memsec@europaclub.org.uk> website <www.europaclub.org.uk>
> >
> >
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