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[Arthur Spurr]

With many of the replies that I give, I get Mail Delivery Failed messages a few minutes later. It's
a bit gauling to go to the effort of replying to peoples queeries and then to be told automatically
that your efforts are spam!!!

Sorry if I've got this wrong but I do think that if you ask a question then the courtesy of
recieving replies would help matters along!!

AS

[Tony W]

"Arthur Spurr" <aspurr@serendipity.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vh7gi7hs4ahv39@corp.supernews.com...
> With many of the replies that I give, I get Mail Delivery Failed messages
a
> few minutes later. It's a bit gauling to go to the effort of replying to peoples queeries and then
> to be told automatically that your efforts are spam!!!
>
> Sorry if I've got this wrong but I do think that if you ask a question
then
> the courtesy of recieving replies would help matters along!!

How are you replying? If you reply to the group there should be no problem. If you reply to the
individual then you will find that many people have their e-mail address mungeds in a vain and
largely futile attempt to reduce the flood of offers for longer willies, dirty postcards, medication
or cheap mortgages.

The simple answer is to post replies to the group.

T

[Colin Blackburn]

In article <vh7gi7hs4ahv39@corp.supernews.com>, aspurr@serendipity.karoo.co.uk says...
> With many of the replies that I give, I get Mail Delivery Failed messages a few minutes later.
> It's a bit gauling to go to the effort of replying to peoples queeries and then to be told
> automatically that your efforts are spam!!!
>
> Sorry if I've got this wrong but I do think that if you ask a question then the courtesy of
> recieving replies would help matters along!!

Do you mean replies directly to the sender or to the group?

If you mean email to the sender then bear in mind that many people use deliberately spamblocked
email addresses for posting to Usenet. Some can be reconstructed by hand to give valid addresses,
some can't.

However, it is generally better to reply to the group unless you have a specific reason for
contacting the individual solely. That way everyone gets to see your reply which can be helpful.
That's what Usenet is about.

Colin

[Maureen]

"Arthur Spurr" <aspurr@serendipity.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vh7gi7hs4ahv39@corp.supernews.com...
> With many of the replies that I give, I get Mail Delivery Failed messages a few minutes later.
> It's a bit gauling to go to the effort of replying to peoples queeries and then to be told
> automatically that your efforts are spam!!!
>
> Sorry if I've got this wrong but I do think that if you ask a question then the courtesy of
> recieving replies would help matters along!!
>
> AS

Arthur,

Are you replying directly to the poster rather than to the group? Many posters on the group use a
spoofed e-mail address on purpose to avoid spam.

Maureen

[Pete Biggs]

Arthur Spurr wrote:
> With many of the replies that I give, I get Mail Delivery Failed messages a few minutes later.
> It's a bit gauling to go to the effort of replying to peoples queeries and then to be told
> automatically that your efforts are spam!!!
>
> Sorry if I've got this wrong but I do think that if you ask a question then the courtesy of
> recieving replies would help matters along!!

Unless sending a personal message, please post replies to the group. That way, you get to share your
knowledge and possibly save others time in writing the same information, and the original poster
gets any errors corrected by others.

~PB