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Re: reply problem list

2004-09-02 01:46:51

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Bruce Lilly wrote:

Senders often want to _encourage_ followups and _discourage_ replies.
That doesn't mean senders want to _break_ the reply mechanism.

Mail doesn't have "followups", it has replies.

People keep falling back on that (correct) formal statement. However, in 
practice, users don't perceive much (any?) difference between mail and
news. They use the same agents to process all kinds of messages, which
sometimes have come by mail, and sometimes have come by news. I'm sure
that in many users' minds a newsgroup is just another kind of mailing
list.

The conclusion seems fairly obvious...

Philip

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