From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
thank you everyone for the replies. one quick question though. is it customary to thank people for replies? or does it just cause more unecessary traffic on the newsgroup?
I'm pretty new here, and don't know for sure if it's considered customary on this list or not, but I have a view.
I consider myself to be relatively human, and assume that others who answer questions here do, too. ;-) IMO, saying "thanks" is good manners here just like in the rest of the world.
I'm rather unsure about my humanity.
Anyway, yes, saying "thanks" is good maners. Shouting "thanks" accros a big room full of people is not so cool though. Even if all the people came to help each other.
I'd say ... if you do have some comments to the solution/advice by all means do send them to the list, if all you want is to say "thank you" send it directly to the person :-)
I used to be of the opinion that "thank you" was "unneccessary traffic". In fact, IIRC, it was part of proper usenet netiquette. However, I now believe that for the subset of newsgroups and mailing-lists that deal with question & answer type discussions that some kind of follow-up from the original poster is helpfull in that it lets everyone know that the problem is solved. It doesn't have to be a "thank you". A simple message saying that "the problem was solved using technique X" provides a helpfull and informative end-cap for a discussion.
Regards, Randy.
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