From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 10:29:41 CST
kent@landfield.com (Kent Landfield) writes:
>While the intent is reasonable, it does little to solve the problem and makes
>the archive much harder to deal with since no address is respondable. That
>sort of defeats the purpose of posting new messages from the archive options
>and responding directly to posts from within the archive. Both are used
>constantly here and on the numerous lists I manage.
I agree. There is a widespread tendency to assume that if a reasonable person
puts effort into fighting problems, that the result will be valuable.
Unfortunately, when success is as hard to measure as it is in this case,
rewarding effort is counterproductive. We sould insist on some evidence that
changes produce results.
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