Certain factors help a discussion group survive and thrive, while other elements may destroy it.
Good discussion groups have a number of participants who communicate with each other as a group. We don't have dialogues between two people.
Subscribers occasionally ask to post a request to have people respond to questions off-line or directly to their own email address. Those requests are always returned. They are not posted. They violate the basic principles of any lively discussion forum.
We therefore expect all communications among subscribers to take place in public, in order to maintain our group spirit. After all, we wouldn�t have much of a discussion group if our subscribers paired off and carried on private discussions, would we?
Furthermore, in some cases your offline communications can actually cause severe damage to the other subscriber. You would not want that to happen.
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