Re: Sources for Canvas

[Jim Trigg <jtrigg@hoflink.com>]

Poster: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@hoflink.com>

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Alan MacNeill wrote:

[snip]
> Which brings me to ask something that's been troubling my mind for as
> long as I've been on the Merry Rose.  Whenever someone asks a question
> asking for information, the response is nearly always someone posting
> "Responded to privately".  
[snip]
> What about those sorts of questions that actually might be of interest
> to a larger audience than the one person who asked first.  The current

The correct netiquette is: the person who requests the information should
use the following formula: "Please reply privately; I will summarize the
responses to the list".  The questioner is, of course, then obligated to
follow up on his/her promise. 

Blaise

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