I was saying that, in general, one is obliged to reply to emails within business organizations. There was no subtle implication/complaint about this particular list. In general, when a question is asked, you are expected to reply.
Sometimes, however, many of the discussions that I am involved in are complicated/technical enough that I can only discuss them with experts. This format allows me to keep track of these conversations. I can simply post to this List the emails that I send professors, scholars and other exprts so that you can see where these discussions are going.Anand --- On Sun, 6/26/11, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: From: ss <cybers...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [silk] (no subject) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011, 3:43 AM On Sunday 26 Jun 2011 12:06:20 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 25-Jun-11 11:55 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote: > > I posted an email on this forum that was completely blank. It might have > > been posted by mistake for all you guys knew. It is about as contentless > > as an email can get and there are plenty of contentless posts out there. > > Yet, I, as the poster, am expected to reply to all the people who might > > respond to it. > > Expected by whom, exactly? > > Udhay > That message looks like a humorous tongue-in-cheek original contribution to a thread in which everyone has tried to say (or not say) something different. I don't think he really means that he is obiged to reply. shiv
