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Nigel Grinter
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Will someone please explain what this thread is about?
Nigel Grinter
[email protected] wrote in message news:<xqzFa.1518$%[email protected]>...
> Matt O'Toole writes:
>
> >> I keep comments about postings here to the group -- maybe it would annoy him (or anyone else)
> >> to get rebuttals filling up his inbox.
>
> > Whether they fill up my inbox or not, I find emailed Usenet replies extremely annoying. Not
> > because I mind email -- I welcome it. But I hate replying to an email, only to find out later
> > that my reply should have been posted. Hey, if I'm reading the group at all, I'll see it,
> > dammit.
>
> > Some people do this without realizing -- their mail/news programs are set to send both by
> > default. And we all hit the wrong button occasionally.
>
> This is exactly what I have responded to people who do this, and from the interpretation of my
> responses in this thread, these people are unclear on what this means. As it is now, I read no
> mail with wreck.bike subjects until I have read the newsgroup. There are still writers who are
> amazed that they can select many options and send their compositions to many destinations at a
> single click.
>
> These folks do not get an e-mail response.
>
> Jobst Brandt [email protected] Palo Alto CA
Nigel Grinter
[email protected] wrote in message news:<xqzFa.1518$%[email protected]>...
> Matt O'Toole writes:
>
> >> I keep comments about postings here to the group -- maybe it would annoy him (or anyone else)
> >> to get rebuttals filling up his inbox.
>
> > Whether they fill up my inbox or not, I find emailed Usenet replies extremely annoying. Not
> > because I mind email -- I welcome it. But I hate replying to an email, only to find out later
> > that my reply should have been posted. Hey, if I'm reading the group at all, I'll see it,
> > dammit.
>
> > Some people do this without realizing -- their mail/news programs are set to send both by
> > default. And we all hit the wrong button occasionally.
>
> This is exactly what I have responded to people who do this, and from the interpretation of my
> responses in this thread, these people are unclear on what this means. As it is now, I read no
> mail with wreck.bike subjects until I have read the newsgroup. There are still writers who are
> amazed that they can select many options and send their compositions to many destinations at a
> single click.
>
> These folks do not get an e-mail response.
>
> Jobst Brandt [email protected] Palo Alto CA