[GTALUG] [offtopic] Global telenetworking

[Tim Tisdall]

On 26 June 2015 at 14:28, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> I get plenty of private mail so I don't know what happened to Brent's.
>
> On 26 June 2015 at 15:53, Brent Kimberley <Brent.Kimberley at durham.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry. This was intended to be a private email to Evan.  ‎ (In hindsight,
>> it appears that Evan's email mapped back to the list.)
>>
>
I think it has to do with the fact that emails sent to the list retain the
"from:" of the original sender but have a "reply-to:" to the mailing list.
So it depends on the UI used for emails, but it's pretty easy to hit
"reply" to an email from the mailing list and think you're making a private
reply when it actually sends the email to the mailing list.  I think I may
have done that myself...  ;)
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