Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> clarified: > > It's the word "immovable" that I'm taking issue with. > > Well, it won't necessarily convince anyone, but let's have a little poll: > > 1. Have you accidentally sent a private reply instead of posting to > the list? Yes, once or twice. > 1'. Have you accidentally posted to the list instead of sending a > private reply? Not on lists configured this way. I have done so on other sorts of lists, and I see examples pretty much every week of people doing so in other sorts of lists. > 2. Have you received an accidental private reply that was meant to go > to the list? Yes. > 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? No. > 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? Heh. You're trying to argue that reply-munging is now the default. That won't, of course, make it right. > 5. How do you feel about the Reply-To behavior of this list? > Do you > + love it > + like it > + don't much care > + dislike it > + hate it > + hate it, Hate It, HATE IT! > > I'll post my answers in a follow-up. You left out several key questions. 6. Do you find it difficult to reply to the individual poster in a list where reply-munging is done? 7. Have you ever heard of anybody being seriously embarrassed, or even harmed (fired, say), for sending a private reply instead of a public reply? 8. Have you ever heard of anybody being seriously embarrassed, or even harmed (fired, say), for sending a public reply instead of a private reply? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info