Re: Reply vs. Reply All for Newsgroups

[Ben Ruppel]

Ben Bucksch wrote:

> Rationale: Users who post followups when they should send e-mail
> replies, or vice versa, seem to be an endemic problem.  They are almost
> always using software that doesn't make the difference clear, or doesn't
> even provide both commands.

Sorry, but why is sending an email reply and a post to a newsgroup so bad?
That way, the original poster is guaranteed to get an answer if he forgets
to check the newsgroup, and other people interested in the answer can become
enlightened as well.  Makes sense to me.

-Ben