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Re: Change in the list's Reply-To setting



Wow! What a well-named committee!

> The members of SAA Council's Archives and Archivists List Oversight
> Committee (Mark Greene, Richard Pearce-Moses, Thomas Connors, and Jackie
> Dooley) would like to address some of the comments regarding the recent
> change in the list's REPLY-TO setting.

"Oversight" indeed! They're overlooking the entire purpose of this list: to share information among
professionals. Make that purpose more difficult to execute, even a tiny bit more difficult, and the
list will wither into a little bulletin board.

With all due respect to the four committee members, two of whom I know personally, it's a STUPID
decision! The list wasn't broke, but you went and fixed it anyway. If it doesn't shrivel, I'll be
surprised.

Why the bloody @#$*& does this list need the sanction of the SAA anyway? Why can't Bob just run it
the way he and the membership see fit? Everett Wilkie and Exlibris don't have such asinine political
problems with RBMS or any other rare books organization.

Here's Bob's original announcement:

> Hello Everyone,
>  After considering the results of, and reaction to,
>  the trial change in the
>  Listserve "Reply To" setting, SAA's Listserve
>  advisory committee, with the
>  approval of SAA Council, has decided to institute
>  the change on a permanent
>  basis beginning February 1, 2001.  Starting on
>  that date, all replies to a
>  listserve posting will automatically go to the
>  original sender rather than
>  to the entire list.

Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
Curator of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210
<http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/> -- 315-464-4585
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                                          -- Davy Crockett
                                [Autobiography, 1834, title page]

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