mail to individuals

[Odd]

Christopher Chan wrote:
> Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> Why would I post to an individual.
>>>     
>> Thank you for bringing the exact issue to light.  Maybe you don't.  Some do.
>>
>> Sometimes you want to make a remark like "that Thurston guy is being
>> awfully weird about this topic don't you think" to some other poster
>> without the rest of the list knowing about it.
>>
>> Now, if "reply" goes to the list... how do i reply privately to the author?
>>
>>   
> Easy. Ask for the email address on the list. Guaranteed to get it on 
> thousands of spammers' lists. <:O)

Every mail on the Ubuntu lists contains the email address of the
sender. And they are public mailing lists, so the spammers
already have a field day with our addresses.

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Odd