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Re: reply etiquette

2004-09-29 08:44:52

hmm.

it appears no one noticed my intended irony.  

my query was an example of the supposed violation but -- as I 
expected -- it did not trigger the claimed concern.

In any event, copying only the mailing list is extremely common 
etiquette and, in fact, is enforced on lists that set the 
Reply-To to be the list.

d/

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:16:33 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
 It is inexcusably rude to reply to someone's message
 without sending the reply to the person who sent the
 message.  You have done that with several of my
 messages.  I demand an apology.


 I am rather confused by this posting.

 Can anyone explain it to me?

 it's very simple.  if  you reply in a public forum to a
 message that someone sent, it's common courtesy to send the
 author of the original message a copy of the reply.

 for a variety of reasons, merely sending the message to the
 public forum is not sufficient, unless the author has
 explicitly indicated that this is sufficient.



d/
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Dave Crocker  <mailto:dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
Brandenburg InternetWorking  <http://brandenburg.com>





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