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[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/01/2018 05:49 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Michael A. Peters:
> 
>> Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take
>> into account the vastly different way different types of minds work.
> 
> Mailing list netiquette has been around for decades, for good reasons.
> If Joe User's mind "works differently", Joe needs to make the effort to
> adapt to existing conventions instead of expecting conventions (and
> thereby other people) to change.
> 
> -Ralph
> 

That is the opinion of some.

But - I would wager that over 95% of the time when someone hits the 
reply button on a list post, their intent is to reply to the list.

If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not 
match common usage and is the problem.

I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work, 
not should most people need to.