From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 19 19:36:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7E315038 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA21184; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:03:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA45121; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:03:47 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990420120347.I40482@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:03:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Cross Posting... References: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> <8061.924575152@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <8061.924575152@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:25:52PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 19:25:52 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both >> lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > > I think you're ignoring human nature here - one cross-posted message > invariably (and I mean almost *always*) leads to every single reply > which follows it going also to multiple lists. For really > contraversial threads, you can also count on the cross-posting fest to > eventually mutate to the point where the messages being cross posted > have nothing to do with *any* of the lists they're being posted to, > making hash out of the "relevance" argument. Agreed. That's a separate issue, though. I was referring to a case where the message really is relevant to several groups, and most members are on more than one of them. An allied problem is when following up to a message, it's appropriate to include the people personally, even though they're on the list, so that their mail reader has the opportunity to flag the message accordingly--thus I have replied to you and cc:d -chat, even though you're on -chat. > And don't say it doesn't happen because I've probably chewed you out > as much as anyone for ignoring inappropriate cc lines in your own > replies. :-) Sure. I certainly wasn't going to say that. But I do change the subject line where appropriate. And to avoid more chewing out, I've taken the others off the cc: list. > When you're dealing with hundreds of emails, the predilection for > simply replying without ever even looking at the cc lines is very > strong indeed. Right, that's why we've caught you at it, too :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message