Email headers (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Although this may at first glance seem like a reasonable and perhaps 
useful change, in reality everything has its consequences. To implement 
the change as you (and others in the past) suggest would mean much more 
frequent posting of personal mail. This comes from users hitting "reply" 
and not paying attention to whom they are sending their message. 
Therefore we all become privy to what they *really* think about various 
individuals, or what they are planning to have for dinner that night, or 
whatever else they had intended to send only to an individual. 
Subscribers can be found to argue both sides of the issue, and thus by 
changing how Web4Lib works I am destined to displease everyone in turn.

So my stance on this is that unless I can be persuaded otherwise (and 
I would prefer that the conversation occur with me directly than with the 
entire list) things will remain the same. These days there are very 
powerful email programs (Eudora for one) that can filter your mail into 
various folders based on certain criteria (yes, Mildred, this is how one 
implements a "bozo" filter). I realize that we are not all blessed with 
such technology, but I think it is also possible to scan the messages and 
detect those that require attention sooner than others (can you say "boss"?).

Again, those of you who take exception to this position are encouraged to 
write to me directly rather than to the entire list.

On another note, I will be leaving late tonight for a week (to Cancun, 
thanks for asking, and no, you cannot come). Dave Rez, my esteemed 
colleague and old Web4Lib hand will step in to ride herd on bounced mail 
in my absence. That means those of you who are begging to be manually 
removed would do better to email drez at library.berkeley.edu if you wish to 
be removed next week. As always, thanks for your understanding and 
cooperation.
Roy Tennant
Web4Lib Dictator


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:13:05 -0700
From: Sweeting, Floyd <SWEETING at frick.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Email headers

I am wondering if whomever is responsible for administering the list can
put the email address in the name field as well as in the address field
of the header for the list so that my inbox index list "to" column will
show "web4lib" instead of "multiple recipents of list"

This would be so useful when dealing with a large volume of mail and I'm
sure other list subscribers would find it useful as well.

Thanks,

Floyd Sweeting
The Frick Collection