Hi, Bob.

BL>  JG>> It is assumed that you posted in a public forum, therefore you
BL>  JG>> posted to All.

BL>  BL> Bloody hell! This is not acceptable. How the bloody hell do you
BL>  BL> find replies to your questions?

BL>  PE> The idea is that you start a subject, e.g. "baking fish
BL>  PE> fingers", and then all the comments on that subject are
BL>  PE> displayed together. This is similar to fidonet, in that just
BL>  PE> because a message is not addressed to you, does not mean that
BL>  PE> it does not answer your question.

BL>   I know how the theory, but after four years of e-mail I also know
BL> how it works: you answer your personal mail first, and then if you
BL> have time you scan the rest and reply to interesting ones. The lack of
BL> a To: line is quite unacceptabe.

Yes. And for exactly the reason you state.

Paul, I suggest that you implement X-comment-to as a matter of priority,
not a thing to be done some time. I'd hate you to miss a trade you
really wanted to do because I hadn't yet got around to reading my
non-personal mail.

Regards, fIM.
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