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 cc, but luckily my mailer mutt understands what you want. That's good
because I can't keep track of what the hundreds (thousands?) of people on this
list wish, and not all of them have smart mailers to set the
Mail-Followup-To header.
Personally, I like the cc. If I ask a question and someone
takes the time to respond I like to get that message right away
(yes, sometimes there's a delay in debian-user). And when I reply to
someone I assume they want a response quickly, so I cc.
Is it the cc you don't like or the duplicate mail? I like the cc's but
I hate the duplicates. And (also luckily) I run Debian and with a
simple additions to my .procmailrc I no longer have the duplicates:
# kill the duplicates
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $HOME/msgid.cache
It's the spam that I'm not really that excited about.
--
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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