From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Curious
Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:09:07 -0800
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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. :)

This seems to be a moderately recent development; I suspect it's mostly
caused by new newsreaders that have this feature.  It never used to happen
before all these fancy GUI newsreaders (at least, that I remember).

I personally find it confusing; if mail shows up in my mailbox, I have to
wonder whether or not the email is a single reply to me (in which case I
should respond by email as wel), or whether it's a courtesy copy of
something posted to news (in which case I'd rather respond through news).

Some newsreaders tell you that it's a courtesy copy by putting a Newsgroups
line in the email, but then some newsreaders just use this to indicate that
the emailer is responding to a news article.

Basically, I'm with you -- copying people via email does nothing but
confuse the situation.

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