> We don't need to dwell on this too long I think, I've drawn it to peoples
> attention, its up to others' sense of etiquette now.

On some (hig volume) mailing lists it actually consider good practice to
reply directly to the email as well as CC it to the mailing list. Often
because a) mailing list message can up several hours or more to get through
the mailing list, b) the person my subscribe, post and unsubscribe so not to
deal with the volume of mail from the mailing list. (debian-users and
debian-devel are examples of this.) I'd had questions answered with several
replies back and forth before they where seen on the mailing list.

Usually a clever person in the above case might have a filter whic sends
mailing list messages to a particular mail box and direct messages (even if
also CCed to the mailing list) to the inbox. Can helps improve respond
time.

Nicholas

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Received on Wed Mar 8 14:53:40 2000