Holger wrote,
> Well, in a private reply the list address doesn't appear in the
> header, so you can't send a message to the list by accident if you
> use your mail program's reply function. You'd have to change the
> recipient manually and insert the list address on purpose.
But that's exactly what some people do as a matter of course.
For two examples I've seen:
1. Someone on a reply-to-sender list doesn't grasp the notion of using
the MUA's reply-to-all function and always sends public replies to posts
by starting a reply and replacing the previous author's address with
that of the list. Then such a person mistakes an incoming private reply
for a list post and quotes the sender's private text into the list.
2. I once knew someone who distrusted his mailer's reply command
entirely and never used it. He always answered mail by copying and
pasting the text into a fresh message and entering the outgoing address
by hand. When he had posted to a list and mistook a private reply for a
posted one, he blithely quoted it back into the list, and if you told
him that was wrong, he whined back, "I'll do anything I want."
Granted, there was only one doofus who did #2, but I've seen #1 quite a lot.
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