[posted to list & emailed] Pete Phillips wrote:
> I usually send both to the original sender and to the forum I am reading. > If in doubt, copy the original sender. If they are offended by receiving a direct > EMail response (that's happened to me a total of once in 20+ years) then > they're probably a troll in search of a flame, and the mistake was mine for > bothering to try and help such a person. That's my etiquette. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I've sometimes been annoyed, not offended, by replies to myself which also went to the list - **which don't explicitly say so**. The reason for this is that in common with lots of other people who are subscribed to dozens of mailing lists, I tend to read my inbox first, then filtered mailing lists when I have the time. If I get an email in my inbox, I assume that it's a reply to me, not to the list, and I (often) reply back with a lengthy mail. Later on, I read the same message on the mailing list, and *then* I get a bit annoyed, since the people on the list would probably also appreciate the reply, and I usually dig it up from my outbox, edit it for style (public lists usually require a different tone for clarity) & resend it to the list. This used to be quite common in the Good Old Days (tm) of usenet, and some newsreading software would actually insert [posted & mailed] into your message automatically if you cc'd a posted message to an email address. So, to sum up: please indicate in the body of the message if you're replying directly *and on the list*, it'll save bother for those you're mailing when they reply. Oh, and on the Reply-to: issue - surely it's either an outdated majordomo or a broken config if it can't spot loops? This isn't a new issue by any stretch of the imagination - or is it a matter of prolification of broken email clients/autoresponders? -- Illtud Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau Senior Systems Analyst Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Yn siarad drosof fy hun, nid LlGC - Speaking personally, not for NLW _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
