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Bill Skaggs skaggs at bns.pitt.edu
Mon Jun 5 08:55:33 EST 2000


janderspy at worldspy.net ("John E. Anderson") writes:

> Bill Skaggs wrote:
> > 
> > "--scottd" <scottd at doc.state.vt.us> writes:
> > > I am not much in to new groups so can you please respond to my email
> > > address.
> > 
> > So let me get this straight: you want somebody to take the time to
> > read your question and then write a response to it, but you're not
> > willing to take the time to check the newsgroup for an answer?  Is
> > that what you're saying?
> 
> I don't understand this type of response.  How much time does it take
> for you to send the message to the asker of the question AND post it to
> the newsgroup.  If you don't care about the original post, then just
> ignore it!  
> 
> A newsgroup, to many, is a place where expertise in a subject can be
> found (whether there actually is any expertise in the newsgroup is
> another issue ;-).  Because of this, people post messages asking their
> questions of those whom they presume to be able to answer them.  (Why
> the question about flame flicker frequency to a neuroscience newsgroup,
> I don't know...) But they may not have the time -- or perhaps don't
> remember -- to check the newsgroup for an answer every day, and since
> newsgroup postings expire, they might miss it. (Of course they could go
> to the archives...) And so they ask politely for responses to be emailed
> to them.  I've done this (not in this newsgroup), and got a similar
> response from someone.  Actually it was quite a bit ruder than the one
> from Bill, which isn't even quite rude.

Thank you.  My objection was not to the request for an email CC, which
is perfectly reasonable, but rather to the condescending way it was
put. 

	-- Bill






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