At 10:56 PM 1/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Well, I will never be in the Tweeters Hall of Fame, but I feel like a
>complete idiot responding to the flaming message, because - and will I ever
>learn - I still have not learned that when one presses 'Reply to Author'
>it doesn't always go to the person writing

No, the list server puts a reply-to header in the message that causes you
mail program to respond to tweeters, rather than the person posting to
tweeters.

Why does it do this? Because normally you want to respond to a thread in
public, not private, that's sorta the whole point of a mailing list.

So, if you want to respond privately you need to do so explicitly. Once
you understand this, it's easy enough to remember.



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