Re: Release

[Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, Greg Troxel wrote:

> There's nothing wrong with a direct reply to a list message, 
> and it's discourteous to refuse them.

Would it be correct to claim equivalence -- more or less -- 
between your category "direct reply," and what I have been 
accustomed to call an "off-list reply?" I mean by that 
expression a private reply to a list subscriber without CC'ing 
that reply to the list itself.

I agree that such messages ought to be acknowledged by their 
recipient. Some seem to have a burr under their saddle as to 
this point. Never understood that, but then the 'burr' question 
is tangential to the events you described.

One overlooked "moral" to the story is this: if you are typing 
out an email address rather than copy-'n-pasting it you are 
asking for errors. <g>

Thank you.


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