Hi all
As well as subscribing to psci-com, I also use Big-Chat, an equivalent
service run by the British Interactive Group, using, I think, onelist as the
service provider. This is set up so that all repliesgto to the group rather
than the sender, and we don't seem to have any problems with autoresponder
messages.
This seems to be a good way to run these services, so I would support
changing psci-com to work in the same way.
I'd also like to vote for Michael Kenward's new acronym for our activities.
I like PEST, because it is easy to remember, is a much better word than PUS,
and if it annoys a few people at least they won't be able to ignore us. And,
I like the idea of getting PEST funding from COPEST.
PUS is dead! PEST is best!
Richard Ellam.
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>From: "Michael Kenward" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "PSCI" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Replying to psci-com messages
>Date: Sat, Aug 26, 2000, 12:06 pm
>
> All this will soon be academic. Later this year (27 November 2000) it seems
> Mailbase will move to the CCLRC servers at Rutherford Appleton.
>
> Here is the link to announcement:
>
> http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/news/1999-12-13.html
>
>
> The list will then run of listserve software. I can tell you from experience
> that it is much better than Mailbase. It can trap errant messages and is
> much more easy to configure.
>
> I have run a list on their server for some years with hardly a hiccup. It is
> set up so that "Reply" goes back to the list. We have never seen an
> autoresponder message.
>
> I strongly urge the owners of this list to do a bit of homework and to work
> out how they want to configure the list. If you are in the Janet network,
> you probably have access to a really neat web based interface. My only
> regret is that the security at CCLRC is so good that I have to work by
> email.
>
> To make up for boring the rear end off everyone about off topic trivia, and
> to see if anyone gets this far, can I throw in an anonymous suggestion for
> the name we use for this PUS, PUSET caper.
>
> Here is a not stolen from the end of a message from someone who sits and
> watches (the coward) without joining the fun.
>
> "I dislike the acronym PUS, and PUSET is even worse. What is wrong with PEST
> (public engagement with science and technology)?"
>
> The nice thing about PEST is that it would upset the more toffee nosed
> gatekeepers of the activity.
>
> I might be tempted to make it "Public Engagement in Science and Technology".
> But who is quibbling?
>
> MK
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Simon ,Miss Louise
> Sent: 24 August 2000 16:28
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Replying to psci-com messages
>
>
> Dear all
>
> Further to Michael Kenwood's message about replying to psci-com messages,
> let me clarify the situation as it now stands. The psci-com list is set so
> that - if you click the reply button on your e-mail software - replies go to
> the sender of the original message. To reply to the list you need to click
> the "reply to all" button.
>
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