DDB asked: 6. Do you find it difficult to reply to the individual poster in a list where reply-munging is done? No. Though my email software (Netscape) is too stupid to have a reply-to-list button, I *can* click on an email address to generate a message to it. 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? No. 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? No.