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People can send replies where they like to. On other lists I use (DIGVID,
NIH-Image) people tend to get fussy when off-subject discussions appear
in their mail folders, and huge threads discussing "Netiquette" are provoked.
My request was not for cytometric information so I suggested that anyone
answering could mail to me.
End of story
Ray
On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, MK wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> This is not meant as a 1st of April joke:
> Yesterday a request was posted on this list by Ray Hicks, asking for
> references on Fugu and ending with the following remark:
> "please reply directly to me"...(two E-mail adresses follow) "rather than
> the list to avoid mess and clutter"...
> That is, of course, Ray Hicks' privilege. However I (and I think many other
> subscribers to this list will agree on this issue) am of the opinion that
> as a matter of courtesy to the list members the reply should be sent TO
> THE LIST. After all it is this "mess and clutter" that makes it possible
> for so many of us to do exactly what Ray has done, i.e. get hold of a
> piece of information from the past, should we need it.
> I therefore urge users to reply to such requests THROUGH THE LIST.
>
> M. KUSHNIR
> lcmk@weizmann.weizmnn.ac.il
> Cell Biology, WIS.
> Rehovot, Israel.
>
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