Ah, now I catch Declan's trick

[Bill Stewart]

At 07:42 PM 2/14/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>The below is typically muddled.
>
>Netiquette says one should not send one message to someone privately
>and *the identical text* to the list in a different message. It
>leaves the recipient unsure about whether the thought was a private
>communication or not. This is what Jim has done twice this week.
>
>It is, however, perfectly acceptable to do a reply-to-all when engaging
>in list conversations (provided that the CC line is not too long, etc.),
>and that is what I have done and am doing.

Netiquette is somewhat conflicted about this -
especially when replying to a noisy list somebody isn't on,
including their name in the To: or Cc: tends to drag them in
to a large discussion that meanders off onto other topics.
Bcc: is one way to avoid this problem; Reply-To: is another.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
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