The fink-beginners list is configured as "reply-to-sender". By default you reply directly to whoever posted the message you are replying to. If that is bad etiquette, then the list should be configured as "reply-to-list". Then you would have to go out of your way to reply to the original poster (unless his message included a "Reply-To:" header field).
Regards,
Vic
At 11:51 PM -0800 1/28/03, Ben Hines wrote:
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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