Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:33:32 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recipient list on FreeBSD mailing lists Message-ID: <20060301083332.GA44352@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <1141197872.28549.3.camel@neuromancer.home.net> References: <20060228114219.GA7338@rebelion.Sisis.de> <440438BE.9070304@redry.net> <1141182799.28393.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20060301062944.GA2107@rebelion.Sisis.de> <1141197872.28549.3.camel@neuromancer.home.net>
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in message <1141197872.28549.3.camel@neuromancer.home.net>, wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... > > PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the > person answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list > only?? I notice the same query in one of your previous messages; thought that by now you would have got a response. It seems that is not the case, so ... The guideline is to copy both the OP and the list as not everybody who posts a message is subscribed. See also point 6 ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html#AEN218 I personally would delete an address if the owner of that address explicitly requests not to send him/her a copy. Personal judgment about the recipient list & behaviour of mail clients also affect the mail headers. For an example of (modifying) mail client (behaviour wrt mailing lists), see mutt manual and read the sections containing "mail-followup" ... http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt - Parv --
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