>Steven Brust writes: > Why? Because, even though the other way of doing it (reply goes to the > list, not the person) is more convenient, I have been told that there are > hidden dangers involving potential hacking and suchlike to doing it > that. Do I know this is true? No, but I have *faith* in DDB, who told me, > and...I BELIEVE! > This is faith. > On this subject, I am NOT thinking. I am accepting an answer on faith. > I would argue that you're still thinking, and doing quite a lot of it. You're thinking about what you know about DDB, and whether he's a trustworthy person based on past examples of interaction (I don't think your trust in him can necessarily be described as faith if you do know him well enough to have a body of previous experience from which to draw patterns and conclusions). You're thinking about what you know of hackers and the Internet, and whether what's being described sounds plausible, regardless of whether or not you actually understand the details. You're thinking, in the end, about whether the trade-off between convenience and safety is worthwhile. The fact that you're not thinking about the details of mailing list management doesn't imply that your brain has entirely turned off on the subject, only that you're relying on secondary facts to come to a decision. I'll leave any possible parallels between this and religion to the religious folk. Being an atheist, I'd just screw them up. Claire