From: Erik Max Francis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Curious Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:09:07 -0800 Organization: Alcyone Systems Lines: 31 Message-ID: <33297823.F9E2832@alcyone.com> References: <5gb1pf$g1r AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.alcyone.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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 Alcyone Systems / web: http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, California, United States / icbm: 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W \ "I am become death, / destroyer of worlds." / J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting legend)