Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:03:53 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing list etiquette Message-ID: <36952278@h30.sp.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20110408233826.00005e10@unknown> (Bruce Cran's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:38:26 %2B0100") References: <BLU0-SMTP822D4E4CF029F1BA9770C993A40@phx.gbl> <BANLkTindDGJ4JxBzgjY434LY%2B15ywU0Maw@mail.gmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP20121C52B6CB6F4D37FE7ED93A40@phx.gbl> <4D9EF6CD.3040004@qeng-ho.org> <BLU0-SMTP4AE64F3A96B5D9419A73793A70@phx.gbl> <4D9F48F8.9000008@qeng-ho.org> <20110408191152.GB19718@guilt.hydra> <20110408211511.GA11735@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20110408233826.00005e10@unknown>
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:38:26 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:15:11 +0200 > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > You seem to miss one crucial fact: Not all the people who write to > > this list are subscribed to it. They will not see any replies > > directed only to the list. It is for their benefit that that rule > > exists. > I don't know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies > CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't > notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the > mailing list each day. +1 Since I'm subscribed to almost a hundred maillist I should admit that this rule is *very* helpfull to speed up conversation. -- WBR, bsam
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