On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> If you don't mind my asking, do you send many off-list messages as > replies to on-list ones? > Oscar > For this list, I have sent 1 public reply and 2 private replies (to thank individual tutors). Both numbers are too small to have any significance. Reading the Chip Rosenthal article that Steven referred to, I thought that in the case of this Tutor list, his arguments are neither here nor there. It probably comes down to personal preference, and that's why I stated mine. The reason for my personal preference is that for other lists, I am frequently annoyed by private-reply emails landing in my inbox, and sometimes I absent-mindedly do the same thing, thus annoying others. For most lists, group-reply ought to be deliberate. For a few lists it doesn't matter either way. What if, as Oscar seems to say, this Tutor list is in a category where private-reply ought to be deliberate? Most people would only form 1 habit for all lists, rather than 1 for each of the several lists they participate in. If so, I think the habit of deliberate public-reply would serve us better in terms of etiquette. Trung
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