[FFML] Just a note on configuration

[Jon Rosebaugh]

On Jul 1, 2007, at 11:53 PM, John Campbell wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> There is a longstanding argument in the more technical parts of  
>> the 'Net
>> against setting the Reply-To header on mailing lists. I disagree with
>> this argument rather sharply, primarily on the grounds that  
>> replies to
>> messages posted to *any* discussion forum of any type should go by
>> default back to that same discussion forum.
>
> Personally I think the old policy, combined with the attitude of the
> posts regarding off-topic posts, most noticeable in replies to such
> things as "Fic search" posts was a great part of the reason the  
> list was
> dieing.  If you don't build a community the list will just die the way
> rec.arts.anime.creative did.
>
> If you look back through the list's archives, back to its height, say
> 2001 or so, you'll find there was MUCH more "chatty."  People  
> brought up
> off topic things all the time.  And even when you stripped out the  
> dross
> you still ended up with FAR more actual fic-related discussion than I
> remember ever seeing last year, or the year before.  I don't know when
> the change in policy was made...I could probably find it in the
> archives, but I think it was a bad choice, and would rather put up  
> with
> people asking the name of a fic they barely remember...and reading the
> replies...and replies to replies than see a fic a week greeted by dead
> silence.
>
> Also, as only the author of a fic ever really saw the
> criticism/suggestions related to his fic, only the author ever learned
> anything from it.  We shouldn't be forcing people to make their own
> mistakes publicly by posting a fic with the same flaws as the last  
> three
> fics when we can publicly humiliate the first person to come up with a
> new and novel blunder.

I agree.

Jon

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