Hi, The problem with the latter one (i.e., when a questioner gets the answer, repost the answer back to the mailing list) is that the person who's got the answer may not forward the answer back to the mailing list. Even when you have the rule written say in FAQ, new persons who recently joined the mailing list might not know about the rule. Then, they would not forward the answer back to the mailing list.
In my opinion, reply all with a simple tag [ANS:NS] or something like this might work. People will know that this email message is an answer to a certain question. Those who do not care about the answer can immediately delete it. They may event get their mail client to delete mail whose subject contain [ANS:NS]. But we need to come up with an agreed-upon tag for answering the question. Note that one drawback of this approach is that there might be too many email about the reply, which might annoy our members. Best Wishes, Teerawat Issariyakul http://www.ns2ultimate.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teerawat-Issariyakul/358240861417 http://twitter.com/T_Bear http://www.t-issariyakul.blogspot.com http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~teerawat On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:35 PM, farzin parsa wrote: > > the latter one is much better, > > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Mariam A. Moustafa <elansary....@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Mariam A. Moustafa <elansary....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ns] Why do we have this group? > To: "Ahmad" <arasem...@yahoo.com>, ns-users@ISI.EDU > Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 4:38 AM > > > Fine, I suggest two method we can follow > > 1- All reply for all. > > 2- All relpy in perivate and then the person who was asking the question, > gather the replys and forward them as an answer of that question (we will > only have one collected reply). > //may be use a tag in the subject of the reply mail as "{ANSWER}". > > Thanks in advance > Mariam > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Ahmad <arasem...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi Fellow NS2ers, >> Personally I prefer to see answers for everything as it may be relevent at >> some >> point. >> Anand, you can do what I (and may be many de here), have a special folder >> setup >> with every email with the Subject "NS2" being forwarded to it so your >> general >> inbox does not get flooded with it. I am glad to know that there are people >> answer becuase I posted 2 questions (figured the answer of the first one >> though) and didn't get answers and I saw just questions so I thought no one >> is >> answering here. >> but yea I would personally like seeing all answers so everyone has >> reference >> incase they run into similar issues. I think I saw two more posts sharing >> the >> same "likes". >> >> After all, good luck everyone in your research! >> Ahmad >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: "Teerawat@UBC" <teera...@ece.ubc.ca> >> To: anand <waytoan...@gmail.com> >> Cc: ns-users@ISI.EDU >> Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 9:23:02 PM >> Subject: Re: [ns] Why do we have this group? >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I answer to people in this group regularly (as much as I can). But usually, >> I >> just do it to avoid others who have to receive the answers which are >> relevant to >> their interest. >> >> >> There is no guideline on the use of this mailing list. If there is one and >> it >> says that most (if not all) answers should be replied to ALL, I'll be glad >> to do >> so. >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> Best Wishes >> >> Teerawat Issariyakul >> http://www.ns2ultimate.com/ >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teerawat-Issariyakul/358240861417 >> http://twitter.com/T_Bear >> http://www.t-issariyakul.blogspot.com >> http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~teerawat >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:28 AM, anand wrote: >> >>> >>> isi is build like this...it is easy to mail al the group....but they >> didn't >>> considered that one >>> may take interest in getting the answers of all the questions. >>> besides if they forward to all then ur inbox will always be filled with >>> ns-user's mail....it will end only u unsubscribe....so it's for the best >> :) >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > > Mariam Ahmed Moustafa > > Software Engineer, R&D Department > > Integrated Solutions For Ports > > Tel: +(203) 4293846/4294632 Extn: 207 > > Email: mka...@isfpegypt.com > > Web Site: www.isfpegypt.com > > > > >
