Expectation of privacy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/03/2013 11:10 AM, Tim wrote:

> Though, having said that, it has been my policy that if someone from a
> mailing list sent me a cowardly private nastygram, I would reply back to
> the list.  They rarely ever did that to me more than once, after that.
Well, people who are replying to PM on lists, to me qualify as "not 
showing any respect to privacy" and them not being able to destinguish 
between "confidential" and "public" correspondence.

That said, to me, replying to private off-list mails in public is simply 
inacceptable.