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From: J.COOK@ENM.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Who's got the ANSWERS?
Message-ID: <166000014@ENM.Prime.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 12:02:00 GMT
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In article by garym@telesoft.UUCP:
In article <111900098@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, glk01126@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Many people answer questions by sending mail directly to the poster, who
>will (hopefully) summarize if it's of general interest.  ... I always
>(well, almost always) send answers by mail rather than posting a followup.
>You can always send mail to the person who asked a question and see if he
>got an answer.

Well, no, you can't "always send mail to the person who asked a question
and see if he got an answer.

MANY people list their reply address as something of the form "HARRY@SITE.UUCP"
Problem is, we could send mail to Harry if we could find the site and we could
get to the site if we knew the path, but we don't know the path.  Most email
bounces.

Perhaps there is some great node out there that knows the path to most sites.
Mail routed through it would magically get to the right place.  If it exists,
I don't know about it.

Jim Cook (J.COOK@ENM.PRIME.COM)
"Just my opinions (or lack of knowledge), not my employer's"