On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 02:59:26PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Clarification, please. Occasionally a miss-configured mail reader will
cause a private off-list reply, which the correspondent does not notice.
My usual response to that sort of thing is to suggest that the
correspondent fix his mail reader, and then reply to the email on-list.
But only if there is nothing in either the errant email or my reply to
it which I believe to be private. Is something like that within your
admonition not to reply on-list to an off-list email?
I had similar questions.
On 12/21/23 14:27, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
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Posting well-intentioned private replies back to the list is not appropriate.
Please clarify how the Debian Community Team wishes us to respond to the
following use-case:
1. User A posts to the list. This post may start or continue a thread.
2. User B replies to #1 directly to user A. All content is suitable
for the list. There is no statement of "off-list", "private", etc.. A
reasonable mailing list reader would conclude that the reply was
intended for the list, but was send off-list due to human error.
And, the double-fault use-case (yes, I made this mistake recently):
1. User A posts to the list. This post may start or continue a thread.
2. User B replies to #1 directly to user A. All content is suitable
for the list. There is no statement of "off-list", "private", etc.. A
reasonable mailing list reader would conclude that the reply was
intended for the list, but was send off-list due to human error.
3. User A replies to #2 directly to user B. All content is suitable
for the list. There is no statement of "off-list", "private", etc.. A
reasonable mailing list reader would conclude that the reply was
intended for the list, but was send off-list due to human error.
David
