On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 08:21:51AM +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It's not considered good list etiquette to reply to someone off list, is it? I just did that, hence the d'oh.
It's not bad if it's a mistake, it's considered (generally) bad form to mail the list and cc: the person you're replying to as they'll get 2 copies of the mail. It's also (generally) considered bad form on mailing lists to take discussions off-list unless they are off topic, or if a conversation has happened that has been off-list it's bad if the posters don't reply with a follow up or answer to the original problem.
It's incredibly frustrating when you find a post in a mailing list archive where someone had the same problem as you have now and the last word is "let's take this offlist".
It's similar to http://xkcd.com/979/
Adam