[Taxacom] legal threats

[John Grehan]

Agreed. I also think it's disingenuous for people to respond off list with strongly negative responses. If one does not feel that they can respond that way to the list then they should not respond at all.

John Grehan 


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> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Deleporte Pierre
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] legal threats
> 
> 
> I think it's logicat to treat off-list messages as effectively "off
> list";
> 
> if the sender has mistaken, he will observe that his message does no "pop
> up" on Taxacom,
> and correct by himself by sending again to the list
> 
> it seems very clear that the default reply option is to the sender, not to
> the list,
> precisely in order to avoid mistaken sending to the list instead of to the
> sender... not the reverse!
> 
> of course we all like answering messages...
> but we (including John) should not confuse private conversation with
> public debate
> 
> of course, anyone can also refuse private conversation ("delete button")
> ... but not force public debate
> 
> Pierre
> 
> Curtis Clark <jcclark-lists at earthlink.net> a écrit :
> 
> > On 2009-07-26 12:19, John Grehan wrote:
> >> In future I will take care not to assume that off list postings
> >> mistakenly omit response to the list (by failing to 'reply all') and I
> >> will respond to negative off list responses on the list by omitting
> >> identity of the individual (I presume that is legally allowed).
> >
> > I've found it useful in the past to respond directly to the author,
> > asking "Did you intent this to go to the list?" It avoids a lot of
> > misunderstanding.
> >
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