Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > 1. Have you accidentally sent a private reply instead of posting to > the list? Yes, damn it! > 1'. Have you accidentally posted to the list instead of sending a > private reply? I don't think so. > 2. Have you received an accidental private reply that was meant to go > to the list? Yes, many times. > 3. When you get a message that was sent to you instead of the list, do > you feel obliged to query the sender to ask him or her if it was > meant to private instead of to the list? Yes, just about every time I receive a private follow-up. I also send back the entire reply, in case the sender wants to post it to the list but no longer has a copy of his or her message. > 4. Has the Reply-To behavior of this list caused you confusion when > posting to other mailing lists, perhaps even causing you to > accidentally send a private e-mail instead of posting or vice > versa? Yes! Well, sort of. I think I've gone both directions on the RASFW and/or RASFF newsgroups. Grr. > 5. How do you feel about the Reply-To behavior of this list? I dislike it, but not enormously so (e.g. top-posting annoys me rather more). Now that I'm used to the software I switched to, I don't make the mistake myself very often, but I often receive private replies that were meant to be public. And at least once, a private reply really was intended to be private, but I had to ask to be sure. Grr! (Note: This makes me mildly annoyed at DDB, not the poor suckers who accidentally send private e-mail to me.) - tky