20-January-2006, 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Nereid
You might consider the following then: "That's a great* question {X}, thanks. It'll take me a while to answer it properly (approx {y days/weeks}), but I want to let y'all know that I'm on it."
or something similar.
"I will attend to the questions" is, of course, perfectly OK; adding a time estimate is helpful to your reader (in case the unanswered question seems really important to a reader, they'll be sure to remind you about it, on {day/week y}+1).
*good/difficult/very pertinent/interesting. If you think otherwise, perhaps something like "Thanks for that. However, it's not really relevant/a misunderstanding/... Unfortunately, I don't have the time to show how/why/... just now; give me {y days/weeks}, OK?"
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or the one that to my knowledge hasn't been tried yet: "I don't know the answer to that question so I can't answer right now."
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