Loren,

Thanks for your post is it absolutely correct.  I have observed postings with questions that sparked my interest or addressed concerns of mine only to never see a response.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:41 am
Subject: Responding Off List was Re: [VANAGON] Acceleratro cable
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> RE: Responding pmail instead of to the list......
> This thread is about the third time this week that someone has
> posted a good
> question and list members responded off list with good answers.
> That'sgreat but defeats a major part of the reason the list
> exists, sharing
> information.  On non-Vanagon stuff a response off list, to the
> originatoronly, is good list etiquette But when it's a Vanagon
> technical question
> there are probably several people that the question attracted and are
> waiting for an answer.  Not replying on the list also keeps the
> answer out
> of the Archives.  We so often see "Search the archives" in answer
> to a
> commom question but if there is no answer in the archives, only
> questions,then that is little help.
> BTW, this is not an attack on those that respond off list, just
> pointing out
> that there may be more than one person waiting for an answer.
>