And it came to pass that Ben Ruppel wrote:
>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.
>
Newsgroups exist so that we can discuss issues in public, so
that many people can benefit from the discussion. If I receive
an email, I usually assume the sender want to discuss the matter
off the group, in private. So when I make a detailed response
in email, and then discover that it was in fact an unlabeld
"post and reply", it's well, really irritating.
And if you are active in several different groups, as I am, you
are suddenly receiving a large amount of "copies" of posts to
groups you read daily anyway.
Besides, most of us in usenet use "munged" addresses to avoid
SPAMbots. So all you're REALLY doing is choking bandwidth
needlessly.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
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