On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 03:58:53AM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On 02/12/2018 03:05, Michael A. Peters wrote: > [...] > > But - I would wager that over 95% of the time when someone hits the > > reply button on a list post, their intent is to reply to the list. > > Even if it's 99%: What is the lesser risk if someone get's it wrong? > > Apart from the situation that people send mails over the mailing list > with "for X.Y." in the subject and no one knows how private that should > be. Obviously, it's absolutely not private because it goes to - at least > - all folks on the mailing list. > > > If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not > > match common usage and is the problem. > The netiquette is more than just a piece of "documentation of most of > the people think how it should work". > > Please bring serious an factual problems with the netiquette as such and > not just "with some MUA it's not possible" (because it's possible with > really *every* MUA - with some it's just a little more work than with > others) or "most people ignore it because ... > > > I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work, > > not should most people need to. > > ... they are clueless". > > In consequence, the clueless people should define how things should work? > > Well, there are better solutions than that IMHO. > > It's quite the opposite: People should have a *basic* knowledge of the > tools they use - for email e.g. the To:-header has no technical meaning. > > Let's hope that people who do not know how to use a tool - e.g. like a > hammer - doesn't use that tool in the first place .... > > MfG, > Bernd
that is pretty unrealistic and I don't agree with it anyway. Email should be intitive > -- > Bernd Petrovitsch Email : be...@petrovitsch.priv.at > LUGA : http://www.luga.at -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
