On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM +0800,
        Franck Alexis Chollet (Asst Prof) wrote:
>it is fine that the answer is channelled back to the list instead of
>becoming a private piece of information - but I'll suggest it appears
>only in the list archive, so that interested people may go and get the
>multiple answers, ...

It's an interesting idea, but would mean several readers would spend
their time responding to the same question, and if an answer is
incorrect, no one else would ever see it and be able to offer a
correction.  That would also mean the community wouldn't learn who's
helpful and who's not.

I think the list participants will soon learn to check for other
responses before answering a query.  To make this work, I'll have to
moderate individual messages quickly instead of approving a batch of
them once a day, but that shouldn't be a problem.

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