If you want to respond to a post someone makes on the list, or ask for
more help, please respond to the list. When you email people directly,
you limit the amount of help you may receive. Additionally, noone else
can benefit if the help goes only to you. Additionally, it is
basically stealing someone's time to email them personally for help
just because they happened to respond to your posting on the list. If
you are really that embarrassed, create a yahoo mail account and make
up a stage name or something.
So if you need help, stick to the list.
Note that just because your address was in the "To" line doesn't mean
"they responded to you directly". The default action of the lists is to
reply to the poster as well as the list. If the list was in any of the
headers, include it in any replies.
For more tips on how not to annoy curmudgeonly geeks like me, see
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html , "How to Ask
Questions the Smart Way".
-Ben
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