Here is a very personal example, in which I learned a valuable general lesson about talking shit:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001175.html which had a side effect of cementing one of my professional mantras: What would David Wagner do? ::) I can certainly take the time to be better about spurious reply-all sends. best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology https://www.cdt.org/ On Mar 19, 2013, at 21:22, Matt Mackall <m...@selenic.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 19:08 -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: >> Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by >> default been broached? > > Reply-to-list poses a significant usability risk that can escalate into > a security issue, so it's unfortunate that it's being used here of all > places. > > Let me relate a personal example from several years ago: > > A: <operational discussion on activist group list> > B: Right on! ps: how's <extremely embarassing private matter> going? > B: Oh SH*#&$#*T, I'm SOOOOO sorry, I didn't mean to reply-all!! I feel > horrible!! > > It's quite easy to imagine <extremely embarassing private matter> being > replaced by <career-ending aside> on most lists, but on this one in > particular it might be replaced by <potentially life-endangering datum>. > > Now compare this to the typical fall-out that happens without reply-to: > > A: <operational discussion on activist group list> > B: <public reply accidentally sent privately> > B: Oops, sent that privately, sorry for the duplicate. > > How many such minor inconveniences equal one job lost or life > endangered? In my opinion, no list should use reply-to-list. > > -- > Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
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