Trey Harris wrote: > In a message dated Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Puneet Kishor writes: >> 5. I made the original posting on the list, not to any one person >> privately. All responses to that should be made to the list. > > This is an interpretation of netiquette I've never heard of, and I've been > on the net for well over a decade. If anything, netiquette says that > comments that are of less-than-general interest should *not* be posted to > the list at large. >
Yes, agreed. In the interest of keeping the lists on-topic, off-topic material, or side-comments to the material in question should be made off-list, privately. (in my personal experience with many lists over the last several years, this is the preferred method) This *is* why we have so many different lists, no? (:
