Re: Please Read The Rules!!!

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2 total messages Started by David Tapley Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:07

#1777

Author: David Tapley
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:07

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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.
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David W. Tapley                       206-543-1484 (voice)
Friday Harbor Laboratories     206-543-1273 (fax)
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Re: Please Read The Rules!!!

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Author: Harald S. POELCHAU
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 06:28

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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

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