Charles Lindsey wrote:
In <414858B4(_dot_)4010305(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
No, the list owner has no idea of what the message author intended;
he might not be subscribed to the list, desiring personal responses
to be summarized to the list, he might read the list from a web
archive interface w/o being subscribed to the list, he might be
sending a notification to one list that a topic of potential interest
to that list's subscribers is being discussed on another list (with
discussion supposed to take place on the latter list), etc...
In most cases the list owner will have a sufficiently accurate list of his
contributors
You have completely missed the point; a list owner doesn't know
what the author desires -- merely having a list of potential
authors doesn't help.