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A lot of lists follow the official "rules" for internet email, which say that the listserver shouls never override the "reply to:" header in a received email. A side effect of this ia that you specifically have to include the list of origin in any replies that you want to go to the list.
>Absolutely! It's selfish to come to *any* forum, ask for help and
>specifically request that answers be provided offline. That said, there are
>a number of responses I get offline as well, but many of them are either
>private, semi-private, or responses from those individuals to whom I had
>sent something in a similar manner.
>
>It's only fair to post answers here where *everyone* can see them. I'm not
>a shy person (I'm the only one in my family who has any modesty ha ha joke
>joke!) and I tend to speak up (even when I shouldn't!), but there are many
>who are less voluble than I. They may be too shy to ask the same question
>that was asked and they, too, want to know the answer.
>
>My other pet peeve? The guys who want all the previous BS deleted because
>they have a 1200 baud modem and it takes too long to get it. Then,
>consequently, some kind soul strips the dadgum (insert stronger expletive
>here) thing to the point where you have no idea what the original question
>was!
>
>Other than that, this is day # (fill in the blank) of awaiting my new KX3.
>Been chasing 7O6T in the meantime - fun stuff!
>
>Art - N4PJ
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Bill <
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>
>> Yesterday I posed a question and received eight (8) email responses. I
>> note that only one response was on the list. Is this the norm? I thought
>> responses should be made on the list for all to learn from.
>>
>> Bill W2BLC
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