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From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: E-mail only I don't read this news group
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.061228.15780@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 11 Apr 90 06:12:28 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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>>> Any help or assistance would be appreciated. (E-mail only, please. I don't
>>> usually read this newsgroup.)

>>	This is a pain in the neck.  I gleen much information through reading
>>this and other news groups.  If people reply to queries directly by mail I,
>>and many others miss out on the information.  Let's keep shareing information.
 
> I'LL SECOND TO THIS.  If someone is not interested enough in his/her
> own question to read and fowllow-up the group, why should we really
> oblige.  It is a denigrating attitude.  Of course there are
> instances where replying by E-mail is warranted, but NOT because the
> sender of the question doesn't even want to bother reading the
> group.  I must admit that this has annoyed me on several occasions,
> and should not be considred directed against this sender, or this
> group, in particular.  - Ok, I'll say no more, since this is
> comp.lang.pascal, not alt.flame. 

I have usually replied to questions by Email to avoid cluttering news groups
with very specific or repetitive replies. I hadn't really considered the
value to the "browser" - since I glean much information this way myself perhaps
I should post more? Maybe the moderator should advise us? comp.lang.pascal is
not too busy so perhaps there is less harm in posting the same stuff over
again - but let's not take things to extremes. I read about 200 messages a day
(various newsgroups) and about 50% should not (in my opinion) have been posted.