From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Jon Green   
    writes:   
   >Archive-name: genealogy/britain   
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   >Last-modified: Thu Feb 20 20:32:52 UTC 2014   
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   []   
   >If you have any corrections or additions to the FAQs, please either   
   >post them directly to the newsgroup for its members to mull over, or   
   []   
   Perhaps something like this should be added:   
      
   ---   
   If you see a post that is a response to a very old (3 to 30 years) post,   
   where the poster is clearly under the impression that they are   
   responding with a private email to the original poster, then please   
   consider _not_ posting a further followup to the 'group; if you feel you   
   have to respond (or have further information on the subject of the   
   post), please do so by direct email to the poster (of the new post).   
   This is because (a) the original poster (of the new post) may well not   
   see any followup posted in the 'group [they may well not be familiar   
   even with the concept of newsgroups], and (b) such further posts waste   
   the time of other readers, and may irritate some.   
      
   Such posts - which often seem not to realise how old the post to which   
   they are responding is, despite often including its date, and often   
   quote insufficient (sometimes none) of the original post for it to be   
   clear what they are about - seem to originate from some combination of   
   (1) gmail users and (2) their having accessed the 'group via Google   
   Groups, possibly as the result of a search result without it being   
   obvious [to them] that the result is in a newsgroup. So far, it is not   
   clear why this combination results in such posts: those who have tried   
   say that the user interface of Google Groups _does_, for example, show   
   the date of the post to which one might consider responding. Note that   
   not all gmail users are susceptible to this problem; some, especially   
   those who access newsgroups using a proper (NNTP) news client, do   
   understand the newsgroup concept and are valuable contributors.   
   ---   
      
   So maybe something like this could be added to the FAQ, otherwise not   
   changed for over 4 years? Posted here "for members to mull over", as   
   suggested.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   1974: not one member of the British jury gave the Swedish band a single point.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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