[Techtalk] Opera Help with Replies

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw at openminddev.net
Sun Nov 2 01:17:37 EST 2003


On Sunday 02 November 2003 00:02, Hamster wrote:
> Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev.net> wrote:
> > Surely Opera has a reply to all button??  I tend to use that in my mail
> > clients.
>
> Yeah, but that button is really good at infuriating people because if you
> reply to a mailing list *and* to a group of individuals you end up with
> people getting two copies of the mail.
>
> > Personally, I don't mind getting replys twice,
>
> Yes, but you'll find that people on dial up do. You'll also find that
> people who pay per data volume downloaded object to getting two copies.
>
> > Don't know if there is a convention here on LinuxChix about the 'two
> > copies' issue.
>
> I don't know if there is official policy, but a personal policy of "being
> considerate of other people on the list" is often a good guideline.

Point taken, and I'll make more of an effort to reply to the list only in 
general.  I will admit that I've been on broadband sufficiently long that I 
forget what dialup is like.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net


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