On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 10:34 -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Gordon JC Pearce
wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:08 -0600, Howard Goff
wrote:
Do you stock this diskette?
Somebody probably has it. You've mailed a list of several hundred
(thousand?) computer enthusiasts, rather than a shop which might
actually stock things.
If they didn't know they were mailing a mailing list, then they're
probably not subscribed to it, so they probably never got your response
since you didn't CC the original poster...
Yes, sometimes relevant posts from non-subscribers go through. I think
it's usually obvious which these are and, yes, if you've got anything
useful to say you should cc the poster if you want them to see it.
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Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk
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http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360