The below is typically muddled. Netiquette says one should not send one message to someone privately and *the identical text* to the list in a different message. It leaves the recipient unsure about whether the thought was a private communication or not. This is what Jim has done twice this week. It is, however, perfectly acceptable to do a reply-to-all when engaging in list conversations (provided that the CC line is not too long, etc.), and that is what I have done and am doing. -Declan On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:08:29PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
He posted a comment the other day about my sending private notes was unwaranted in responce to comments made on the public list.
I was wondering why he got them at all because previously he hadn't been receiving them. Well today I made the same mistake, I didn't look at the header until after I'd sent it. Then I realized that Declan is now sending these messages not only to the list, but to me privately (something he says is against netiquette?), something he wasn't doing before. The private messages bubble to the top first so I reply to them. I was also wondering why I was getting multiple copies of his inbound too.
So, if Declan would please forward the responce to his public post back to the list (and send his commentary w/o me cc:'ed specificaly please) we can proceed with a reasonably civil debate until he finds something else to play with instead of the topic at hand.
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