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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thu 1/16/2003 8:47 AM > ... at least once a month. > > Someone will post a question to the reflector. > All of us see it - - - > but replies are explicitly sent directly to the > sender, WITHOUT copying the reflector. To post to t13 is to plea for help, almost publically. Yes, a reply-to-all helps more people than does a person-to-person reply. But person-to-person help remains far better than none: I certainly don't wish to discourage person-to-person replies. For example, my recent post titled "[t13] PC boot Bios folk hang out where" appears to you to have provoked no replies. But in fact so far I have received more than one person-to-person reply. Granted, what's ironic about a person-to-person reply is that the people replying, more than the rest of us, might especially like to know that more than one person is replying, and to hear what they say. But as the receiver, I have no good way of sharing that information. What can I say, without being indiscreet, except that indeed you each are hardly ever alone in replying to me offline, no matter the topic. About all I can do is try to remember to post back here anything substantive that happens to fall out of the discussion, either immediately else after the relevant NDA expires. > I guess we all need to be more careful when hitting > the 'reply' button or command. Suppose you work for a company whose exec's understand the direct argument that they don't want anyone but PR folk quoted as having spoken for the company, but don't understand the indirect benefits of free attributed discussion, merely because those benefits are hard to quantify & predict. In that world, to reply person-to-person is to risk your own interests for the benefit of the community, and to reply-to-all is impossible. Pat LaVarre
