From: Ko-Kang K. W. <Ko...@xt...> - 2003-06-03 19:10:38
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mullen" <jom...@nm...> > I suspect that the problem is more likely that the original poster is a > bit too impatient and, as a result, not waiting long enough for posts to > arrive before replying. A criticism that he or she has failed to read > the posts, is therefore, a tiny bit unfair. I think a better advisement > is to clue new posters in to this time lag and encourage them to wait a > while (e.g., about half a day) for the posts to arrive before reposting. In some mailing list I'm on a general convention is to Reply All. In that case the poster will be the first one to receive an answer while it is (sometimes slowly) distributed in the mailing list. This is, in my personal opinion, a very good way. Having said that I find that this does not work for this mailing list. When I click Reply All in Outlook Express it does not work. It will only reply to the list and if I want to cc to the original poster I'll have to copy the email and paste them to the cc field. Cheers, Kevin ------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang SLC Tutor and MSc Student Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 |