On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:56:39 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:39:12 +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
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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.
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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.

Well, never without my choosing; in theory I could accidentally send the
wrong one (the Followup and Reply buttons are adjacent), but I don't
think I've actually done that in several decades of using it.


The buttons are adjacent here too. I've occasionally done it
accidentally, but I've always caught it and fixed it before I pressed
Send. I use Outlook e-mail, not Agent's, so the Windows look very
different.


What it
won't do is send _both_ at once, as its designers felt strongly about
that - irritating as I _occasionally_ _want_ to.

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.

Well, s/he's


I'm almost sure it's a she, but I can't remember her name.


not exactly inviting, just pointing out that if you _do_
decide to send an email, that her email is munged.


I suppose it's technically not an invitation, but to me, telling the
reader how to do it is so close to an invitation that I have no
problem with calling it that.

It's sort of like, "If you want to send me a check, my address is ..."