Reply to coercion

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 6:58 PM -0800 12/21/96, Thom Stark wrote:
>I don't know how many others feel this way, but I, personally, find it
>irksome that the iahc-discuss listserver fails to reset Reply-to to the
>list, rather than to the author of a post.  I find it inconvenient to be
>unable to simply Reply without changing the addressee.

	And showing, once again, the joys of life's tradeoffs, the
counter-concern is that one replies to a message and thinks it is going to
the author but, no, it goes to everyone on the list.  Such unexpected,
broad dissemination of a reply can be rather irksome if, say, the reply
comments about other participants on the list...

	So the tradeoff is between some inconvenience when replying to all,
versus serious accidental divulgance of content, seriously violated
intended privacy.

	What a choice!

d/

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