Disklavier

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Youngblood" <carl@...> wrote:
>
I agree. This is different than regualar email. P.S. Didnt we switch 
to google forums?
Neal

> By definition, all posts to a forum are "reply to all", so I don't 
really
> think your observation applies.  On a regular email with many 
recipients, I
> can see your point.
> 
> On 5/25/07, Jerry Dutcher <gldutcher@...> wrote:
> >
> >    The recent flurry of pointless emails appears to be new 
internet social
> > phenomenon: a runaway flood of email traffic caused by too much 
use of
> > ReplyAll to a distribution list. I saw the exact same pattern 
occur at work
> > (Boeing satellites) a month ago, and the behavior of all the 
engineers on
> > the distribution list in that incident was identical to this 
forum flurry.
> >  A seemingly innocuous email (in this case a test message sent to 
too many
> > people) elicits a few too many responses which go to the whole 
distribution
> > list rather than the one person who asked the question, which 
eventually
> > provokes a flood of ReplyAll emails from all the irate people on 
the
> > distribution list and then a stream of "Get me off this list" 
emails (again
> > to the whole distribution list).  Finally people just get tired 
and the
> > traffic dies away.
> >
> >
> >
> > It's in our nature to reply to questions, and also to respond to
> > irritating emails which waste our time.  That's fine, but until 
the mass of
> > people learn to hit Reply instead of Reply All (which is 
admittedly
> > difficult in this forum) we're in for occasional spates like this 
one.  All
> > we can do in the meantime is resist the temptation to 
hit "Reply", instead
> > having a chuckle at all the pointless traffic and smiling as we 
hit Delete,
> > Delete, Delete.  A lot of good information flows through this 
forum, and
> > putting up with occasional traffic flurries is the cost of 
belonging.  Let's
> > just stay cool and enjoy the worthwhile posts.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >  
> >
>