reply or follow up
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Member - swagman(VIC)
i may be missing something,but when should you post a reply to a question and when should do a follow up or doesnt it matter
Reply By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:50
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:50
swagman,
When some one answers a question it will be a reply.
Wayne
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Follow Up By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:52
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:52
swagman,
A follow up is when someone want to add to the reply or make a comment to about a reply.
Wayne
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Reply By: Member -Dodger - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:51
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:51
Any time your heart desires squire.
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Reply By: Notso - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:51
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:51
Gedday swaggie!
Reply is when you reply to a request, a follow up usually enlarges on either your earlier comment or on someone else whose reply you think you can add something intelligent to.
Now I know this sometimes doesn't happen (Re the intelligent bit) but that's about how it should go.
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Follow Up By: Patrolman Pat - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:55
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 15:55
I have nothing intelligent to add to this reply.
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Follow Up By: Member - Matt M (ACT) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 16:00
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 16:00
So I only have to be intelligent in a follow up? Great. Doh! Missed my chance.
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Follow Up By: Member - barry F (NSW) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 17:45
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 17:45
I have not been a member for very long. What does "intelligent" mean? It is not listed in the abbreviations. Thank in advance.
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Follow Up By: Member - Fred G (NSW) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:07
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:07
On the subject of abbreviations, enlighten me as to the meaning of some of the more common ones we see here please. What list???
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Follow Up By: Member - barry F (NSW) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:17
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:17
Hello there Fred, there used to be a list of commonly used abbreviations at the bottom of the page & I was going to direct you to it when I read your follow up. Trouble is I cant find it, must be my old timers disease!!
Hopefully another member comes to the rescue. Cheers.
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 19:19
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 19:19
Abbreviations is still there, but not once you hit the Post Reply or Follow-up buttons..... as you are looking at my follow-up now, scroll to the bottom of the whole post and you'll see the Abbreviations button.....
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Reply By: Member - glenn G (QLD) - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 17:02
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 17:02
Just be careful you don't do a follow through ! It's Friday !
Good question, one that I have wondered about myself !
Cheers
Giffo (Now a member Woo hoo )
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Reply By: Gerhardp1 - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:01
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:01
A follow up will generate an email to everyone else in the tree.
A reply will only generate an email to the original poster.
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Follow Up By: Patrolman Pat - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:07
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:07
Unless you disable the email function.
I posted a reply to a mates post the other day, he was at my place at the time, 20 seconds later he gets an alert on his mobile. That's overkill, I won't name him but S*****, you know who you are ;)
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Reply By: Mike Harding - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:05
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:05
I suspect the idea came from the news groups (usenet) which have been around since close to the start of the internet (was there a "pre-internet" world!? :) and "threaded" news readers - anyone remember TIN?
A thread (post) is started and receives a "Reply".
Any responses which directly address that "Reply" rather than the original post are "Follow-ups".
Any responses which directly address the original post are "Replies".
The reason for doing this is that threads often (almost always :) wander off into areas which the original poster didn't intend and it's about the best way to try and keep some kind of coherence to the thread - always a difficult task on the internet :)
An FAQ for this site, were it available, would answer many of these questions.
Mike Harding
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Follow Up By: Mike Harding - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:08
Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 18:08
Sorry, I failed to answer your question:
do a "Reply" when you are responding to the statement of the original post and a "Follow-up" when you are responding to a previous "Reply" to the original post.
Mike Harding
PS. This should, probably, have been a "Reply" :)
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