Re: [MacPerl] Mailing lists, back to our usual discussions

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

Vicki said:

>I think the consensus is the multiple lists stay. If you want to think of
>them as one big list, subscribe to all of them and filter them into a
>single mailbox :-)

Which I absolutely agree with.  With multiple lists, folks like me who want
it all, get it all, folks who want to avoid things, can.

However, I disagree with:

>>The only thing that bothers me about multiple lists is that I am subscribed
>>to several of them, and I get multiple copies of messages that are sent to
>>more than one list.
>Use Eudora :-) Available for Macs and ... those other boxes... but sadly
>not for Unix.  Set the setting to delete duplicate messages, et voila.

1) I use Eudora, and in 5 minutes I was unable to find the setting to
delete duplicate messages.

2) People use different (email) software for a bunch of different reasons.
Eudora is a(n excellent) commercial product, and I don't think it makes
sense to  push everyone to one product.

I know you are busy, Vicki, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for
maintaining these lists and so I would never say "you should fix this on
the sending end", but what I am saying is that fixing the duplicate message
problem on the sending end is the "right" solution and ought to go on the
ToDo list.

-David-

David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com



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