Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 14/04/2008, Ganesha Bhaskara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Mr. Bhaskara,
I have seen interesting replies from you to several questions in this list.
I don't like companies who force me to rely on/pay money to them to
access my own data ....... ;-)
Unfortunately they will not be seen by the people to whom you think you
have have responded because those people are not subscribed to the list
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or cc: parts of your replies. The above message is a case in point. You
did not explicitly include [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your reply.
This list [controversially] accepts questions from users who have not
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I believe this is a good thing. Our goal here is to build a good support
system for OO. Distributed, parallel human computation ........ nothing
can beat that.
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Some e-mail clients, like Thunderbird, can filter on this header and,
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Other e-mail clients, like Outlook Express, cannot do this.
Unfortunately using "Reply All" doesn't help.
Thanks for the info. I will appropriately change my filters.
Some of the volunteers who help in this list take the approach that they
are not going to go to any special lengths for those users who can't be
bothered to subscribe and that if such users don't see a reply that's
their misfortune. This part of the world is relatively free ...
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