RE: Fwd: translation

["Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com>]

Hey John,

I don't think so. In the off-chance that I'd say something unflattering or unkind to an individual, I don't think I'd want the default setting to be "To the whole list". It makes it available for all the world to see just by typing my name in Google. Wouldn't it be easy enough to just send it again directly to the list if you happen to hit "Reply" instead of "Reply All?" I can't see any posting being valuable enough to offset the embarrassment caused by saying something inappropriate to the whole list.


Tom Johnson
Technical Writer
tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com 

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Well, as the proverb goes, "It is better to have posted something 
embarrassing, than never to have posted at all". It's a risk I'm 
prepared to take. Still, maybe I'm a voice in the wilderness shooting 
monkeys in a barrel.

Could be a poll question on the list's page? Or it could be a long and 
pointless thread which lurches from anecdote to opinion before finally 
dying without conclusion.


Dick Margulis wrote:
> I participate on two lists where the default behavior is to reply to 
> the list and you have to manually delete the list address and 
> copy/paste the member's address if you want to reply privately.
>
> This arrangement leads to FREQUENT embarrassment for people who 
> intended to write privately to the OP.
>
> The setup on techwr-l, where Reply All is the way to post to the list, 
> is far preferable IMO.

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