Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc03.gnilink.net.POSTED!05c4ec6b!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: ja,en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Private for Declan References: <3ed2c0ee$1_5@news.uncensored-news.com> In-Reply-To: <3ed2c0ee$1_5@news.uncensored-news.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 11 Message-ID: <7mzAa.20453$IK4.4172@nwrddc03.gnilink.net> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:40:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.130.9.135 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc03.gnilink.net 1053999619 68.130.9.135 (Mon, 26 May 2003 21:40:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:40:19 EDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:117 Rindler Sigurd wrote: > I have come across several messages that use as Subject "Private for XYZ"... > Is there a special reason to send them to everybody instead of using email? The expectation that other people in the group may be interested, but you want to be sure that XYZ reads it, because you are continuing an old discussion you had with XYZ. Obviously, they aren't really private. KWW