Also Sprach Don Dando :
I went to a bit of effort to reply to an inquiry in a post here about Towing
a boat.

After giving the subject some good thought and committing it to an email to
the originator it rejected as a bad address.

I'm certain this has happened to everyone, but I'm to the point that I'm not
responding to any more inquiries because it is just a waste of my time and
effort.

Certainly I realize that it happens because people use incorrect addressees
to limit the amount of junk mail they get. But if you ask a question how do
you expect people to answer it?

I expect people to reply to the group. What's the point in sending a
reply to only one sender? The whole purpose of USENET is to share
infomation, not to obfuscate it.

Sometimes I reply on the news group rather than to an individual and often
the reply never gets posted.

Time to find a better newsserver. I've been using individual.net for
years, its fast, costs nothing, and is spam-free.

Dan


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