At 11:14 AM 12/22/2005 -0800, Standlee, Kevin wrote:
[For the benefit of the entire audience.] Many mailing lists --
including most of those that I'm subscribed to -- are set up so that the
default reply-to is the list, not the sender. This does occassionally
lead to someone who meant to reply privately sending an embarassing
message to the entire list.
While I agree that technical folks have an advantage when it comes to
avoiding embarassing posting mistakes, I distinctly recall a meeting where we
voted not to discriminate against undead (something about garlic and a
recently-
passed fan or author) and since undead is often a charitable
description of my state by the time I log on to answer my home
email, having the default protect against embarrassment seems
a reasonable idea.
(I admit my first reaction yesterday was "Why didn't
it default to the list? .... but I thought better of it after a bit.")
