Gilbert B. Rodman wrote:
... Put a slightly different way, either way, there's inevitably going to be a burden placed on *someone* to remember how the list is configured if/when they choose to respond to an onlist message: ...
What's less harmful? A message intended to be public accidentally sent to only one person, or a message intended to be private sent to a public list? No matter how technically savvy we all may be, we are humans and humans sometimes make mistakes. We've all done it, if not on this list, on some other. If the list were reconfigured, the consequences of those mistakes would be minimized, and that would be better for everyone. The "cost" to the list of such a change would also be minimal. We all know how to resend a message if we discover it only went to one person rather than to everyone. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain