[Bldg-sim] [Fwd: neighboor building] Where's the answers?

[Jason Glazer]

I would encourage everyone to think about a simple question 
when they are decided who to reply to when responding to a 
BLDG-SIM posting:

   Could my response be useful to others?

If the answer is yes, and I believe it almost always should 
be yes, please reply to the BLDG-SIM mailing list.  That way 
the effort you take to compose an answer can help even more 
people.  In addition, it keeps the conversation thread alive 
and may prompt a response that adds to your own understanding.

Historically, I decided to not use the reply-to header being 
the list address because of vacation messages. Many people 
use them and since they are automatic, they can cause a 
storm of messages.  That happened once and we don't want to 
see that again.

Jason

On 1/25/2008 11:17 AM, Andrew Holden wrote:
> Randy - To me it seems that the issue is the way the reply headers are 
> set up on this list, it defaults to replying only to the person that 
> asked the question.
> 
> It's better now, at least it adds bldg-sim as a CC if you reply to all, 
> it didn't used to do that (if I remember correctly from years ago).
> 
> I agree with your frustration that there is a huge body of knowledge 
> being lost because of that however I don't want to be critical because 
> it's a free list and I know from my own experience that administering 
> these types of lists is time consuming so overall I am grateful to the 
> list owner and administrator.
> 
> -Andrew
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> 
> Randy Wilkinson wrote:
>> It sounds like you got the answer you needed by private email, then you 
>> thanked them publicly on this list.  You are defeating one of the 
>> primary purposes of this list.
>>
>> Please people, when you are sharing your knowledge with people who ask 
>> for your help, please REPLY TO THE ENTIRE MAILING  LIST.  Don't just 
>> reply to them privately.  That way everyone can benefit from your 
>> experience and opinions.  And , the questions don't have to be asked 
>> over and over again.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> Ümit Esiyok wrote:
>>   
>>> Jiten, Kevin, Oswaldo thank you.
>>>
>>> ------------------------ Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------------------------
>>> Betreff: [Bldg-sim] neighboor building
>>> Von:     Ümit Esiyok <umit.esiyok at uni-dortmund.de>
>>> Datum:   Fr, 25.01.2008, 11:27
>>> An:      bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> anyone knows how can be a shading caused by neighboor building simulated
>>> in e-Quest? Have you any experience?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>   
>>>     
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