>> Would also appreciate that you refrain from cross-posting. Thanks...
>
> Why? I sent one mail to this list and one to the Dreamcoders list.

It's a common practice, and recommended in the netiquette guides. Here's why:

Consider that most mailing lists only accept mail from members. (Spammers
took advantage of the social contract, remember.) When a single message is
posted to multiple lists, a respondent who does not check headers risks
trying to post to lists to which they're not subscribed. The costs then
become:

a) People in the list to which the respondent was not subscribed will not
see that message, and risk wasting their time answering the same query
again;

b) The respondent goes "huh?", and the less-savvy respondent then sends a
message back to everyone asking what happened.... ;-)

c) The list mom has to deal with a bounce, and believe me, you don't want
to add to any listmom's workload.

d) People like me type replies like this.... ;-)


For these reasons, some lists automatically remove people who include more
than one mailing list in their header.



> Surely the point of these lists is to help people who need help

Sorta, but it's more of a community than a help desk.

jd




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