- 1. Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:34:47 -0400
- i'm too lazy to look it up, so can someone tell me why we have the trailer on each message that prevents a sent message from going to the list unless the trailer is deleted? I'm on the E-Type list an
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00328.html (7,494 bytes)
- 2. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:26:57 -0400
- It's there so if the list sends a message to a computer with "out of office" "return" message set up, it doesn't create a loop. IE: the list receives the message, and copies the lister. -The lister i
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00331.html (10,228 bytes)
- 3. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:33:39 -0400
- Thanks Dave--that splaines it. Cut and paste works well--:):) I'll have to enlighten the E-Type list. Can't imagine how they lived without this so long:) tom BTW, since you sent this to the Healey li
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00338.html (7,460 bytes)
- 4. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:35:45 -0400
- Thanks Dave--that splaines it. Cut and paste works well--:):) I'll have to enlighten the E-Type list. Can't imagine how they lived without this so long:) tom
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00339.html (7,355 bytes)
- 5. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:49:50 -0400
- The "out of office reply" loop actually happened on the Healeys list once (before I joined the list in 1996). For a while, it was noted on the list as the anniversary of "Black Tuesday" came around.
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00340.html (7,880 bytes)
- 6. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:51:45 -0400
- There are a couple of other positive reasons for it, as well: - it forces people to edit *something,* so they are more likely to trim their replies - it helps to reduce the number of "how to I unsubs
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00341.html (7,723 bytes)
- 7. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:31:53 -0400
- "I thought the reason was to force people to avoid building long strings of e-mail/reply/e-mail/reply.... by just hitting the REPLY ALL button for every post." That's true Steve, --I was initially an
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00342.html (7,660 bytes)
- 8. Re: Healey Message "Trailer" (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:48:39 -0400
- The thing the Majordomo folks may have failed to take into consideration was the amount of server space taken up by discussions of "why is there a trailer?" :-) -- John Miller Majordomo admin, truth
- /html/healeys/2004-08/msg00343.html (7,742 bytes)
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