2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org>:

> The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that,
> even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to go
> to the list, directing an intended-private message to the list causes
> over 100 times more harm than a message intended for the list being
> inadvertently made private.  The Debian list policy is, therefore,
> reasonable, because it minimizes the overall total harm caused by
> misdirected messages.
>
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>

Well said. I think that about covers it.

Terence


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