[TriLUG] About "Private notes"

Matt Pusateri mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
Wed Apr 18 20:18:24 EDT 2012


On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:03 PM, David Burton wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> If the default is to reply "poster" then the default should also be that
>> the
>>> sender is included among the recipients, so that he'll be more likely to
>>> notice if he accidentally sends to just one person when he intended to
>> send
>>> to the whole list.
>> 
>> This could just as easily have the opposite effect.
>> 
>> I send to one person, meaning to send to the list. I see my reply,
>> assuming it really did go to the whole list, and I never know any better.
>> 
> 
> 
> If you send to one person, you *won't* see your reply.
> 
> That's my point: if you don't get a copy back, it will alert you to the
> fact that you didn't send to the whole list.


But it's possible to set your personal preferences to not send you copies of your own emails to the list, which defeats your logic. 




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