🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Mailstrom.1.03.52410.15089.tapley@fhl.washington.edu>,
tapley@FHL.WASHINGTON.EDU (David Tapley) says:
>
>At the risk of running afoul of the new drive to regulate how this list
>operates, I'd like to point out that responses to queries, which the proposed
>rules dictate should be sent ONLY to the original sender (rule 3), are often
>useful to others.  For example, someone asked how to insert text before
>references.  I had my own solution to this problem, but Eric Frank replied (to
>the ENTIRE list!) with what I think is a better workaround.  I never would
>have
>learned of this if he had followed the new rules, and responded only to the
>original sender.  Perhaps we could temper the rules a bit, so those of us who
>are egotistical enough to think we have an original (and preferably nifty!)
>answer to a query would not feel as though we were offending the masses if we
>responded generically, rather than specifically.  One of the reasons this list
>interests me is to see the ways other people have solved the problems that are
>discussed; proposed rule three would seem to limit us to seeing only the
>problems, not the solutions.

I agree with yo 100%.  What good is a discussion group for if you only see
one side of it: only questions, no answers!

Harald S. Poelchau
Forschungszentrum Juelich (KFA)
Germany