The Wanderer wrote: > Much though I might like to continue to discuss this, almost all of the > directions which a further reply might take it are entirely offtopic > rather than just mostly so,
I have to agree with you there. But... here it is. > so it is unlikely that I will make any further posts in this > subthread. (I might be willing to discuss the matter privately if > anyone is that interested, but one-on-one conversation with people > who are no better positioned than I am to do anything about the > problem do not seem likely to be particularly productive.) This is a bug reporting address. We *want* people to report bugs. If we forced all replies back to the mailing list then the original poster would never be able to see the response. It would become a useless blackhole for them. We do not want to force people to subscribe to a mailing list just to report a problem. That would be too high of a barrier to bug reporting. I tried to reply privately but your Reply-To directed the mail back to the mailing list. I do often myself set reply-to back to the list when I think the situation warrants it. But then I would not ask for private replies. :-) Of course *I* realize this when making this private reply back to you. But I am on several lists where people make private replies and do not realize that the Reply-To is sending back to the mailing list. It has been quite embarrasing for many people. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
