RE: Replies to list

My only caution would be that those of us who indulge in a corporate lifestyle in order to support our gardening habits are trained like parrots to use the "reply to" button instead of the "reply to all" when we DO have something private to add to a group discussion.  We'd have to re-train ourselves to check carefully that our "by the way, your zipper is down" messages don't go out to the world.  Small price to pay though for more and better plant talk...

-----Original Message-----
From: J.E. Shields [j*@insightbb.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:36 PM
To: Medit-Plants List
Subject: Re: Replies to list


I strongly agree with John's sentiments -- I find many of our discussions 
apparently prematurely terminated, probably because of the "reply to 
sender" setting of the listserver.

I am also a list owner on a couple of lists, and I found that we had to 
change to "reply to list" to keep any discussions alive.  Now, of course, 
more than once I've sent a reply intended to be private to the whole list 
-- which serves to help keep me humble (maybe).  It also reminds me not to 
say anything in a private e-mail that I would not want forwarded to 
(potentially) several hundred million of my fellow human beings.

I'm definitely enjoying the current discussions, and I thank everyone who 
is responding to the whole list.

Jim Shields
in central Indiana, where the temperature is finally above freezing outdoors

At 12:50 PM 1/28/03 -0800, John MacGregor wrote:
>on 1/27/03 8:08 PM, emhoffs at emhoffs@ucla.edu wrote:
>
> > Dear Respondents - I have received five very interesting and helpful
> > responses to my query about planting Leucadendrons - each one different
> > from the other.  However, the responses have been posted to my email rather
> > than medit-plants@ucdavis.edu.  I think everyone would be interested in
> > reading these responses and hope that you will send them to the
> > Mediterranean site.   Thank you.
> >
> > Ellen Hoffs
> > Santa Monica, CA
>
>Ellen,
>
>I love this list and I think that Sean does a great job of monitoring it,
>but my one peeve is that answers go to the individual rather than the list,
>unless the respondent remembers to hit "reply all" or paste in the list
>address (which I usually don't, and I suspect others don't either).  I
>believe this truncates many interesting discussion threads which would be of
>wider interest.    As an owner of several other lists, I know that you get a
>few extraneous messages which SHOULD have gone to individuals if replies to
>go the the list, but I consider this a small price to pay for wider response
>and continuity.  I wonder if Sean might consider changing the setting for
>Medit-Plants to "replies to list"--at least as an experiment?
>
>John MacGregor
>South Pasadena, CA 91030
>USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23

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