[Sca-cooks] Double Posts

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

sorry, I'm one of the "double posters". I figured it was polite to reference the person if my 
reply was directed at their question so that it wouldnt get lost in their inbox.

does this list have a policy on that? I'm afraid I cant remember who likes doubles and who 
doesnt, sorry, but am happy to abide by whatever policy Gunther and the list prefers.

--AM, who personally prefers doubles, sometimes. and sometimes not. it all depends. which 
makes it her own problem, not anyone elses ;)


On Fri Apr 21 16:56 , Colin MacNachtan  sent:

>
>--On Friday, April 21, 2006 18:43:18 -0400 Tom Vincent
>Tom.Vincent at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> s there a reason why some people double post?  Sending a reply to the
>> poster as well as to the list, which *also* goes to the poster? 
>> It's rather annoying and I wondered if there was actually any good reason
>> to do it.
>
>I can think of a few reasons why it happens...
>
>First and foremost, many mail clients will do this automatically when you
>reply.  They will send the message to the sender of the original and cc
>anyone else it went to, ie the list.  While some of us are computer geeks,
>others aren't, and will probably not realize the effect of doing it.
>
>Second, from a social standpoint, I consider it polite to address the
>response to the person sending, especially if my remarks are aimed directly
>at the sender (I didn't do that with this message since you stated that you
>prefer otherwise).
>
>Third, some mail systems will detect and remove duplicate messages, so
>those recipients will only receive one copy and never realize multiple
>messages were sent.  This tends to encourage those people to include the
>sender in their replies, as well, since they have no idea it doesn't work
>that way everywhere.
>
>And in the end, we all have things we don't know and/or don't have the
>patience to learn in depth.  We should all show tolerance for those who
>don't have the same pet peeves as we do, and allow them their lack of
>understanding of that particular detail.
>
>Colin
>
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