»Q« wrote:
When Followup-To is set, it would be better to make a note of it in
the body of the message, since many people don't routinely look at
those headers.
Setting "Followup-To: mozilla.general" is one way to continue a
discussion in public. Setting "Followup-To: poster" is a way to
redirect the discussion to non-list e-mail. IMO, setting it to the
bitbucket, /dev/null, is not a good idea, mostly because it's almost
guaranteed to draw negative reactions.
On the topic that launched this subthread, if someone receives help
via off-list e-mail, IMO the best thing to do is to come back to the
group/list and summarize; there's no need to post the e-mails
verbatim or to mention the name(s) of the sender(s).
Agreed. That would have satisfied the objective I was pursuing. Of
course, in this case the help was given here and only the fact of its
success and the OP's gratitude were sent privately. Still, a brief
statement that the public help was successful would allow other readers
to make use of it and/or avoid wasting time trying to help.
I think we've run this into the ground by now. Let's stop.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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