On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:39:12 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:27:55 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
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A couple of minor netiquette matters: when you send someone an email as
well as posting to a newsgroup, it's considered polite to indicate
you're doing so - usually at the top of your post/email, such as by
saying "(posted and emailed)". This is because lots of people read their
email first, and reply to emails; if they then find the same thing has
been posted, they find themselves having to say the same thing again.


That used to happen to me often, and it's the reason I switched from
my real return address to a fake one. Some people would have send both
an e-mail message and a newsgroup posting.

I don't mind them doing so - as long as they _say_ they are doing so,
ideally as the first line!


I would certainly have minded less if they said so, but I would still
prefer that they didn't.


And my fake one is purposely a very obvious fake, to dissuade anyone
from e-mailing me.
Yours more than the one that provoked me into writing the above,
certainly. Though sometimes I just hit reply without seeing where it's
going,


You use Turnpike. I've never tried it and know nothing about. Might it
send an e-mail reply rather than a newsgroup reply without your
choosing to do so? I use Agent and it won't do that.


which is why I like a warning just above the .sig line; one I
quite liked was someone who inserted dragon into the email address, and
ended with "emulate St. George to reply", or something like that.


If that's not exactly right, it's very close. I've also seen her
messages, in another newsgroup.

But she's inviting people to reply by e-mail, and with a very
occasional exception, I don't want to do that.


And I suspect you don't use the fudged one for private emails.


No, of course not. It's only for newsgroups.