[TriLUG] About "Private notes"

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:03:54 -0400
David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> 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.

A lot of us are on ten, twenty, thirty mailing lists and get 200, 500,
1000 emails a day. The likelihood that we'll be organized enough to
notice when one email *doesn't* make it to the list is low.

SteveT