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[Ruben Safir]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 03:58:53AM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On 02/12/2018 03:05, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> Even if it's 99%: What is the lesser risk if someone get's it wrong?
> 
> Apart from the situation that people send mails over the mailing list
> with "for X.Y." in the subject and no one knows how private that should
> be. Obviously, it's absolutely not private because it goes to - at least
> - all folks on the mailing list.
> 
> > If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not
> > match common usage and is the problem.
> The netiquette is more than just a piece of "documentation of most of
> the people think how it should work".
> 
> Please bring serious an factual problems with the netiquette as such and
> not just "with some MUA it's not possible" (because it's possible with
> really *every* MUA - with some it's just a little more work than with
> others) or "most people ignore it because ...
> 
> > I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work,
> > not should most people need to.
> 
> ... they are clueless".
> 
> In consequence, the clueless people should define how things should work?
> 
> Well, there are better solutions than that IMHO.
> 
> It's quite the opposite: People should have a *basic* knowledge of the
> tools they use - for email e.g. the To:-header has no technical meaning.
> 
> Let's hope that people who do not know how to use a tool - e.g. like a
> hammer - doesn't use that tool in the first place ....
> 
> MfG,
> 	Bernd


that is pretty unrealistic and I don't agree with it anyway.

Email should be intitive

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