Re: default option on this list

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Ari:  For what it's worth, as an admittedly new member on this list (or 
relatively so, I assume)--and one very grateful, I might add, for your 
assistance, including in changing my e-mail address recently--I'd like 
to very _strongly_ urge you to consider--or, if you must, submit to the 
list, tho I wish you'd just do it--changing the default option to the 
sender--ideally, w/ a click-on option below the message to send to the 
list.  Of the lists I'm on--as pleased as I am to be on it, as grateful 
for your administration of it-- this is far and away the most cluttered 
w/ time-wasting, annoying, meaningless back-and-forth banter--often only 
one or two words! (literally, as you know)--that belong in private 
messages--of the "Right on, Reyzl" variety.  The time wasted in 
retrieving these endless messages--most of which also do not have 
accurate or updated subjects (witness the endless posts on the 
non-subject "Correction")--is _not_ trivial!!--If the connections are 
slow, retrieving and deleting each can easily take half a minute or a 
minute or more.  Twenty or thirty of those consumes a ludicrous amount 
of the limited time I have to access e-mail (from other lists, not just 
this one).  And now we have the example(s) of message after message w/ 
an Oops--I meant that to be private.  That's a reversible mistake if the 
default is to the sender; an irreversible one as is.  I meant to keep 
track of the more absurd messages that _clearly_ shd have been sent--and 
many intended--privately, but didn't; most or all messages that begin 
"Dear Reyzl" (or whoever, don't mean to single her out!) should 
obviously be sent to a person.  Avi, please consider changing this or at 
least bringing it up.  Of course, it wd be nice if it sufficed to remind 
people to think about whether their post is private or not, but people 
_won't_ do it--won't take the time to type in somebody's personal e-mail 
address-- anymore than they've been careful about changing the subject 
since Reyzl brought that up (in fact, I think Reyzl hasn't been careful 
about it herself).  So please think about this!!--it's really making the 
list as much of a bother as the pleasure and improvement it should be.  
Many thanks again for reading this--and I _do_ appreciate, ss others do, 
your management of this list and your attending to my needs in 
particular.  Oh, a P.S.:  After you switched my e-mail, there was a post 
(maybe from R Wiener, not sure) saying something like, you shouldn't 
leave out these two books on Jewish music history--presumably, from a 
list of Jewish Music bookshelf essentials that someone had posted.  But 
I never received an original post of that kind--Can you check when it 
was sent?  Can you forward it?  Many thanks for all.


>From owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org Fri Jan  8 15:18:47 1999
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>To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Subject: Re: Oops
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>>oops.
>>looks like a reply-to configuration problem (attn list mgr?)
>
>Yes, replies to messages to the list, by default, go out to
>the list (that's how we keep discussions going). I'm letting
>this go out to the list in case someone else has wondered about
>the same thing and wants to keep private matters private.
>
>It does mean that when you want to send private mail, you 
>need to pay attention and copy just that one address into
>your reply header.
>
>Be careful out there!
>
>ari
>
>Ari Davidow
>The klezmer shack: http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/
>owner: jewish-music mailing list
>e-mail: ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>
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