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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:38:26 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)
Message-ID:  <20110408233826.00005e10@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <20110408211511.GA11735@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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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.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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