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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette?
Message-ID: <14951@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 22 Nov 89 20:40:03 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1989Nov22.195020.805@algor2.algorists.com> jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
>From a article in comp.lang.c (no need to identify which):
>> Please mail replys to one of the addresses below - I can no longer
>> afford the time to wade through all of comp.lang.c.
>
>I see this sort of thing all the time and it irritates me terribly. ...

>Do others feel this to be a breach of etiquette?

Absolutely.  Anyone presuming to add to a newsgroup's bandwidth
has the responsibility to read it and check for followups, if only
for a while.  There is nothing wrong with requesting mailed responses,
in fact it's usually the right way to go -- but bragging that one
doesn't read the group posted to is just rude.

Even where bandwidth truly is huge, it's the work of a moment to build
a KILL file that picks out only your followups.

Unfortunately there is an infinite fresh supply of people who don't
understand this.  Education helps but it'll still happen.  I forget
whether Emily Postnews covers this point, but she should.
-- 
When I was [in Canada] I found their jokes like their   | Tom Neff
roads -- not very long and not very good, leading to a  | tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly
obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer. -- Samuel Butler.