<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Greg Simkins biz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Hi Anomie, <div><br></div><div>I agree that I have seen some great questions on this list. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to respond to all so the rest of us can see the answers. </div><div><br></div><div>Please guys - others want to see your answers too. When you reply, select Reply to All. (I believe that is the procedure - correct me if I am wrong Dave). </div><div><br></div><div>Greg Simkins</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Greg and all,</div><div><br></div><div>REPLY TO ALL = when you have Mac related summaries, answers, questions or announcements for everyone</div><div><br></div><div>NPMUG Archives = <a href="http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/">http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/</a></div><div><br></div><div>=========</div><div><br></div><div>When you see a question posted and have answers crafted for everyone to use constructively .... then <b>a posting to "everyone" is useful</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>When it is <b>not useful</b> .... and is all too often the case on listserves ... is when an ongoing conversation/chat is posted to everyone ..... like this paraphrased example of 4 emails that have been posted as an ongoing and totally unhelpful thread:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>8AM</div><div>Bill: I need some clarification on FireWire 400 and FireWire 800. Does anyone know the real speed difference when working on video?</div><div><br></div><div>8:15AM</div><div>Jamie: Yes. I do</div><div><br></div><div>8:34AM</div><div><div>Bill: Well, what is the difference?</div><div><br></div><div>8:35AM</div><div>Jamie: Depends on your Mac.</div><div><br></div><div>9:03AM</div><div><div>Bill: I have an iMac G3 / 600MHZ.</div><div><br></div><div>9:10AM</div><div>Jamie: Me too, I love that model.</div><div><br></div><div>9:15AM</div><div><div>Bill: What about the speed difference?</div><div><br></div><div>9:16AM</div><div>Jamie: Seems to be the same to me.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is why the listserve software "Mailman" is set to "reply to sender" rather than "reply to all". To keep the signal to noise ratio down.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>