Greetings. > > Nigel Peck wrote: > > Thanks for the help. When did I reply to you privately? > > This was just to reiterate for everybody to keep the threads on the > list. Since many times those who respond to the questions, suffer > afterwards because people decide that the person answering > the question, > is a free help desk that you can ask about anything, not > talking about [...]
Stas, as one that has been guilty of the same "offence", let me point out that 99.9% of the time, seemingly private responses emerge from the list manager's policy of not munging the Reply-to: header - so the poor schmuck (me) hits reply and fires off a private reply to the poster. I know all about "Reply-to: munging considered harmful" and attending flame wars and I do not wish to delve into the relative pros and cons of the diveded camps (I'll just say that the lists I administer do the munging - period). What I wish to do is pointing out that - on non-munging lists - most standard clients require a conscious decision if they want to reply to the list, despite the fact that this would be the actual intention most of the times (so it makes for a poor interface). People stuck - like me - in Outlook-land have it even worse than most. Just my 0.02 & cheers, alf
