Re: offline courtesy among list members

[kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]

Tom wrote:

> Certainly, it would seem the polite thing to do to acknowledge that you
> received something from someone else, as in the cases you mentioned in your
> post (not reproduced in this reply). At the same time, it seems to annoy some
> people when you tie up bandwidth with a short message that merely acknowledges
> some comment received from someone else. It's hard to know where to draw the
> line, though I guess being polite would be better than being silent and, hence,
> thought rude.


Good point, Tom. The instances I'm referring to are those when I did some
actual WORK on the other's behalf, taking time to compose procedurals,
send documents, graphic examples, etc.

I'm NOT talking about exchanges like:

"Nice post."
"Thanks"
"No, really, thank YOU."
"Aw, it wasn't THAT good a post"  ....ad infinitum.....

These, I agree, can turn into a cloying Möbius strip of endless thanks,
which do nothing other than eat up bandwidth.

-Keith

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