Posted by Sue on November 11, 2005, 7:22 pm
>> A troll, don't you think?
> No not at all. Just common courtesy, maybe it's different in this
> newsgroup, but in most of the others, where you have a thread asking for
> help and get a lot of replies, then usually a thanks for peoples effort
> is the closing response. Especially if you ask more than one question.
Give the OP a chance to draw breath tho', the original post was only on the
10th. Any number of things can get in the way of reading one's replies -
dodgy servers, family... a life! ;)
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Sue
Posted by La puce on November 14, 2005, 10:10 am
Road_Hog® wrote:
> No not at all. Just common courtesy, maybe it's different in this newsgroup,
> but in most of the others, where you have a thread asking for help and get a
> lot of replies, then usually a thanks for peoples effort is the closing
> response. Especially if you ask more than one question.
> As I said, maybe different in uk.rec.gar.
See, my two pennies worth after 3 days ... A poster a couple of weeks
ago asked for some advice with pruning. I had given him advice on a
book he ought to get and he replied to me on an email. Sometimes,
people get back in touch and follow up on email rather than on urg.
> No not at all. Just common courtesy, maybe it's different in this
> newsgroup, but in most of the others, where you have a thread asking for
> help and get a lot of replies, then usually a thanks for peoples effort
> is the closing response. Especially if you ask more than one question.