Hi,

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jim Raden wrote:

> Dscho,
> 
> I saw your admonition about culling, and I wasn't sure exactly what it 
> means, mostly because I couldn't find any definitive answers about how 
> to reply to posts.

Usually, the safe thing is to reply-to-all.

It may not seem a big thing to people getting 20-30 emails per day.  I get 
200 to 300, and most of the days, only 30-50 are spam.  Most others are 
from mailing lists, and I invariably have to delete a lot of them without 
reading them, just because I run out of time.

So it is not only a matter of courtesy, it is a matter of practicability.  
If you want me to see your answer, make sure you address it to me 
personally so that I will not delete it together with a bunch of others 
_not_ directed to me.

And BTW this is a real problem for me.  So much so, that I actually 
started to lose replies that would have been interesting to me.

> I've been a user of the internet since 1990, long enough to remember the 
> shrieks of horror that greeted people from .COM domains, and especially 
> AOL users. If my ignorance of netiquette is reminiscent of that, I fully 
> appreciate the irony.  :)

Heh.  You're older than me, then.  I started in 1991.

Ciao,
Dscho

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