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Re: netiquette: CCing on lists



On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a rant
> or flame ...
> 
> For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why
> do you do this?  Is there some benefit to doing so of which I'm unaware?
> 
> I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header set on my outgoing
> messages, which should be a clue for some readers. (I was told that
> gmane would translate Mail-Copies-To to Mail-Followup-To automagically.)
> I put a comment in my sig requesting that I not receive CCs, and I swear
> that the number of CCs I received actually increased!
> 
> What can I do that will convince habitual CCers not to CC me?  Are there
> technical means beyond the Mail-Followup-To header?
> 
> -- 
> monique
> PLEASE don't CC me.  Please.  Pretty please with sugar on top.
> Whatever it takes, just don't CC me!  I'm already subscribed!!
> 
> 

//

unfortunately, like with
most polite requests,
people do whatever they 
want anyway.  or, al-
though the "compliance
level" of sophistication 
is low, they just don't
have what it takes to
get the job done.

einstein "nailed" it 
regarding only 2 things
being infinite:  the
universe and stupidity;
and he wasn't sure about
the former.

luck.

kthxbye.

b.

//
 



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