On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: > 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. > > > <cut> > > > > Well said. I think that about covers it. +1 I have personally experienced the embarrassment of such situations on a couple of occasions, and counted my blessings that there was nothing sensitive in these messages. Pity there's no equivalent of the Acid3 test to rate the conformance of MUA's - might encourage their authors to fix the _real_ problem. Quite frankly, considering that email is potentially a dangerous activity, I would not feel comfortable entrusting my public or private correpondance on a daily basis to software that's unable to implement such basic functionality as 'reply-to-list'. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
