4 Jan
2024
4 Jan
'24
4:39 p.m.
Hello Polarian,
Firstly, please offlist if you are correcting someone
A public correction is sometimes the correct act. If X corrects Y wrongly then mailing X and Y offlist to explain leaves lurker Z believing the faulty correction. Also others who spot the mistake may either waste time also mailing X and Y or will still email the list.
I doubt Aaron wants to be publicly shamed in front of the entire mailing list
Shamed is an exaggeration.
A simple question has grown into a large thread.
Which is now two bigger. I suggest not making it three. The OP was being mislead by the faulty correction. The thread should have stopped with that being corrected. -- Cheers, Ralph.