Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/14/20:08:45
Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> wrote in article
<33297823 DOT F9E2832 AT alcyone DOT com>...
> 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.
>
> --
> Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / email: max AT alcyone DOT com
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> / J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting legend)
>
>
Especially when replying. If they email you and post it, then you have two
messages to respond to...
--
Dennis Moran (aka Coolio)
coolio AT coolio9 DOT com
http://coolio9.com/
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