🚀 go-pugleaf

At the risk of running afoul of the new drive to regulate how this list
operates, I'd like to point out that responses to queries, which the proposed
rules dictate should be sent ONLY to the original sender (rule 3), are often
useful to others.  For example, someone asked how to insert text before
references.  I had my own solution to this problem, but Eric Frank replied (to
the ENTIRE list!) with what I think is a better workaround.  I never would have
learned of this if he had followed the new rules, and responded only to the
original sender.  Perhaps we could temper the rules a bit, so those of us who
are egotistical enough to think we have an original (and preferably nifty!)
answer to a query would not feel as though we were offending the masses if we
responded generically, rather than specifically.  One of the reasons this list
interests me is to see the ways other people have solved the problems that are
discussed; proposed rule three would seem to limit us to seeing only the
problems, not the solutions.
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