I've tried to explain before but once again....

...LSoft writes the list server software... NOT ME.
...I wrote the automatic reminder message program... NOT THEM.

The reminder just gets email from the "Other:" channel (i.e. the posts that
were not properly tagged AS DECIDED BY THE LSOFT LIST SERVER) it then does a
bit of detective work to find the original poster and sends that person a
friendly reminder.

By the time the reminder program gets the post, all the other people on the
list have already been sent the post. And no, LSoft has not provided a way
to change the tagging of the "Other:" channel. If they did, I would have set
it up so that all non-tagged posts went out as [OT]:'s

Please send your suggestion to lsoft.com, but be nice as MIT and LSoft are
being very kind in allowing us to host on thier machines / software.

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-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Dan Michaels
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 18:03
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]: [ADMIN]: Voting for/against tags


Robert  wrote:
........
>I'm in favour of tags, but I've no tolerance for automatically
>generated 'you're a dunce' notices, particularly when its due to
>someone else's (thread initiators) error. Since the robot isn't
>smart enough to tell a reply from a new thread, and I don't believe
>in messing up the 'subject sort' many people use to follow threads (by
>changing it), I simply abstain, and avoid the dunning mailbot.
>


Actually, I am in favor of tags too, but what I can't understand
is, if the computer is smart enough to recognize a bad tag, and
send you a crack across the knuckles, why isn't it smart enough
to simply append a [TIE]: "tag in error" or [OT]: tag to it,
post the email, and go on about its merry way? Sure would save
on BW. But then, I guess it's just a computer.

- danM

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