2009/10/30 Brian Barker <[email protected]> > At 20:38 29/10/2009 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> Brian Barker wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >> Forwarding to unsubscribed OP. >> > > *Please* don't do this. I knew what I was doing: my reply did not address > the initial questioner's query, but only that of the person I quoted, who > *is* subscribed.
Yes, this was an error; I saw that your message was in the thread started by the OP and that therefore the reply was aimed at the OP. I will try to pay closer attention. > If you wish, why not answer the original questioner yourself? > Because I didn't have a solution to the problem, because you have what sounds like a correct and reasonable solution to the problem, because I thought the OP should benefit from that solution, because I thought that if I didn't forward your message the OP would go unanswered (in his eyes) and, finally, because I think that leaving an OP unanswered when there is a perfectly good answer is not polite. > And my apologies for troubling everyone else by distributing 2500 useless > copies of this message - which I need to do only because you say you will > not read your own mail. > > > Brian Barker > > > -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
