All that Jonadab is really saying is that it is conceivable (as opposed to
LIKELY, which was my question's criterion) that someone with a useful
answer could misdirect it. That doesn't render either of my two sentences
"simply not true."
--On Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:17 AM -0500 Jonadab the Unsightly One
<jonadab@bright.net> wrote:
> Tom Neff <tneff@grassyhill.org> writes:
>
>> The operative question, it seems to me, is whether it is likely that a
>> person giving a useful response to an inquiry on FAQ maintenance is
>> going to be unaware of, or unable to control, where her or his
>> response is sent. My guess, on this list, is that this is unlikely:
>> the only responses sent "by accident" directly to a poster instead of
>> the list, will be of the "yeah me too" variety.
>
> This is simply not true. Anyone can forget (and busy people often do)
> to manually edit a To: header on occasion. Perhaps you meant that
> all clueful people use software capable of working around the issue,
> but that's not true either.
>
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