On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:45:31PM -0600, denis4x4@frontier.net wrote:
> The obvious answer is to use mode A. This allows people to exchange ideas
> on a broad scale. If someone answers a question and the reply goes only to
> the person that asked the question, the rest of us are denied info that may
> prove to be valuable and/or interesting. If you can't copy an address to
> e-mail a personal reply, how the hell to you raise your mast?
The consequences of a mistake are very different.
It only takes one occurence of sending an intensly personal reply to a
list by mistake to make you realize that automatic reply to the list is
a fundamentally bad idea -- if you forget and send a message privately
that you intended to send publically, no harm is done, and, if you want,
you can resend your message to the list. But if, for example, you
mistakenly post publically an ardent letter to a potential lover, the
consequences will not be what you desire.
It isn't as if there is too little traffic on the list.
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