Subject: Reply-to-sender
Date: Feb 4 10:33:35 1998
From: "D. Victor" - dvictor at u.washington.edu


Hi Tweets,

As your *Benevolent Tweetator* I am willing to change the setting back to
Reply-to-list. I will be counting votes posted and/or sent to me
privately.

Here are *my* reasons for voting to keep it Reply-to-sender.

1) Inadvertent postings meant to be private are less likely to clutter the
list. This saves embarrassment to the unintentional poster, plus cuts down
on the number of messages the entire list receives. Since the default was
changed we still have averaged 36.7 posting per day with a high day being
61 messages and a low day of 22 messages. This seems like a lot to me.
I'm afraid some days I don't have time to read them all.

2) With Reply-to-Sender non-subscribers, such as Dennis Paulson (and a
number of others) get copies of the replies to their postings or queries.
There may be a number of responses to a posted query but the when the
default is back to the list, unless the responder copies the
non-subscriber he/she doesn't get a copy of the response(s).

3) With Reply-to-Sender Digest subscribers get immediate response(s) to
their postings or queries instead of having to wait for the next day's
digest.

4) The appearance of the header is reduced and looks more manageable, and
at least with the Pine mailer, looks less confusing.

I vote to keep the it Reply-to-sender.

You lurking Tweets feel free to respond on this to me directly, if you'd
rather not post to the entire list.

Your Tweetatoring vote counter,

Dan Victor, Seattle, WA <dvictor at u.washington.edu>
Tweeters = http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dvictor/