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!

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, 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.

And I suspect you don't use the fudged one for private emails.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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