Saturday, 14 September 2002
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon on mailing lists?
- 02:46: person A sends an email.
- 03:19: person B (in this case, me) responds to it.
- 03:26: person C responds to it.
- 04:39: person A responds to person C, as if person B's email never existed.
As is my custom for messages I think have some reasonable content, I sent my message to the list and copied it to person A. I received no personal or on-list response from person A.
This seems to happen to me with about half the list posts I make: they're ignored and people route around me in conversation as if the messages I send don't exist. Am I really that inarticulate, or is there a technical explanation for this? I mentioned this behavior to someone in conversation, and they ascribed it to list propagation delays. An hour is a bit long for that, however.
If I'm such a horrible communicator, I need to do better, otherwise I might as well not waste my time posting and trying to help other people. Or does this happen to everyone else too, and I'm merely unobservant?
10:10 PM
