<VV> Reply ALL??--NO CORVAIR

[Dave Morris]

So what you're saying is that 50% of the replies are seen only by the 
original sender of the question, and the group does not benefit from those 
answers?

My solution to reducing traffic volume has always been to encourage a 
reduction in the amount of off-topic posts.  (Nearly) everybody already 
knows about bank scams, viruses, and subscribes to joke boards, patriotic 
discussion groups, etc. etc..  Hopefully a message board dedicated to 
discussions of Corvair topics would not require a person to wade through a 
lot of non-Corvair related conversations. (Like this one! LOL!)  A review 
of standard netiquette by everyone would help.

Most of the discussion groups I moderate are in the 350 to 550 member 
range.  I also belong to some larger groups that I do not moderate.

Dave Morris

At 01:54 PM 1/7/2005 -0500, Bryan Blackwell wrote:

>Having been involved with this list for quite a while, I'll disagree.
>We already have issues with the amount of traffic - setting the reply to 
>the list results in an approximate 50% increase in posts.  Yes, we have 
>used that setting in the past, but for a list of this size I 
>disagree.  How big are the lists you are managing?  If we had a moderator, 
>that would be different, but in reality we do not, and never have.
>
>--Bryan
>
>On Jan 7, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Dave Morris "BigD" wrote:
>
>>And it is why hitting the REPLY button should reply to the entire 
>>VirtualVair list, and NOT just to the original sender.  Replies to the 
>>original sender only should be the exception, not the rule.
>>
>>Dave Morris
>>Moderator of many many e-mail lists
>>
>>
>>At 08:14 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>>>P.S. I went ahead and sent this to the list in case there were others 
>>>who didn't understand. I also think it is VERY important to make replies 
>>>to the list rather than just to the sender unless the reply is truly 
>>>private in nature. This replying in public to questions is what makes 
>>>this list work so well!