Re: [phenixbb] OT- etiquette (was Re: Phenix version 1.7-650 and Pymol

On 10:59 Wed 02 Feb , Nathaniel Echols wrote:

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Edward A. Berry wrote:

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By the way, what is the preferred etiquette- "reply all" or just reply to the list? I usually assume the recipient is subscribed to the list and doesn't need or want an extra copy, but it is very easy to delete a duplicate email and i can see if one is subscribed to the digest then having a personal copy would make the dialog go faster.

I don't have strong feelings about this. Approximately one quarter of subscribers only get the digest, and due to multiple complaints about too much Phenix-related email, I've decreased the frequency with which digests are sent out, several times now. (They used to be at least daily, but I changed that on Monday.) So it may make more sense to reply-to-all, but I can't speak for everyone else. If you're replying to one of the developers, however, we all get instant delivery.

I recommend CC'ing people, which is nice for many groups: - digest subscribers, to keep discussions going more quickly and without breaking everyone else's threading; - people who don't get list mail for other reasons (it's possible to subscribe as a post-only user); and - those of us with separate mail filters set up for mails with our names attached. That way, we don't need to immediately read every mailing list we're on. Regarding the digest frequency, it sounds like the real problem is people who haven't yet learned how to deal with lots of email, where lots is hundreds/thousands per day instead of 50 or so. Perhaps posting a prominent link that teaches people how to use things like mail filters, subfolders/tags, threading, and "mark thread/all as read" would be equally or more valuable than trying to find a single digest frequency that's perfect for everyone. Honestly, it's much faster to do things this way than dealing with digests, once you get the hang of it. -- Thanks, Donnie Donald S. Berkholz, Ph.D. Research Fellow James R. Thompson lab, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering Grazia Isaya lab, Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Medical Sciences 2-66 Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 office: 507-538-6924 cell: 612-991-1321