[BNU] Admin's Emergency Reminder: An important word on mailing list manners (cross-posting)...
- From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: braillenote <braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:57:32 -0800
Hi folks,
How's the week going for you?
We usually don't have emergency posts, but given the circumstances, I
felt it is time that we give a gentle word about list manners:
A brailleNote Apex invited two other friends to a party: one, an iPad,
and another, a Surface tablet. In course of writing the invitation,
Apex wrote the addresses of iPad and Surface on the single paper,
hoping to get a response from both.
First, the iPad replied. She said, "I'm happy to come. I'll invite
Nexus. But who is Surface? Never heard of him before." Then Surface
replied. He said, "I'd rather not come. Why should I sit next to some
stranger?"
The moral: Cross-posting means that you're sending one email to
multiple mailing lists, perhaps hoping to generate responses or to
advertise about something to a wider audience. This practice is
frowned upon by many mailing list members and moderators.
To give a more relevant example: suppose a person is subscribed to
four mailing lists, and sends an email to talk about his website to
these lists. However, he put these addresses together when he sent his
email to these forums
Now a member of lists A and B replies, but didn't know that the
original post was sent to lists C and D as well. When he replies, he
gets errors, which says he is not a member of C and D. Or perhaps a
moderator of list C sees a reply from someone who is subscribed to
list A but not hers. She also gets a message, telling her that some
odd reply awaits approval to be posted to her list when in fact the
reply was meant for list B. This continues on and on for a while.
So, a gentle reminder on cross-posting is: we the admins of
BrailleNote Users list do not allow cross-posting. An alternative
would be to send multiple emails, with each email addressed to a
different list, thereby people who are truly subscribed to a given
list would reply to you.
Hope this makes sense. If you have other questions about list manners,
please send an email to braillenote-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Thanks.
bCheers,
Joseph
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