Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/14/11:14:31
Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>
> A lot of people seem to reply to my articles by posting and cc'ing a copy
> to my personal e-mail. I find this a bit peculiar. Perhaps some people
> don't read the group regularly, and pop in with a question and out and
> look for mailed answers, but I for one should be familiar to you all as
> someone that clearly reads the group daily or nearly so. :)
Maybe you should start thinking before posting in such a tone.
To me, as a non-native speaker of english, you style of writing
is really annoying. But then again, I might be wrong.
Nevertheless, given you know enough about the organization of
the usenet news server hierarchy, you also know that the
time for spreading news can be up to 3 days. You probably
also know news feeds can go down, do you?
You also know that most humans are impatient to get an answer
to their urgent questions. In some 80% of all cases
mail is by way faster.So, I wouldn't consider this ``peculiar'',
but rather a ``kind of service''.
--
Ciao
Tom
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