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Re: netiquette: CCing on lists



On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 at 18:26 GMT, David Gaudine penned:
> On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> 
> There's an idea.  I'll try it.  Although personally I'd still rather
> receive the message in my debian-user folder and a CC in my inbox.  I
> suppose I can use a rule to duplicate the message if it's to
> debian-user with me as a reference.  I'm not too handy with procmail
> but I can probably get by.  Anything starting with ":0: c" (work on a
> copy) doesn't seem to work on my server.

Shouldn't that be
:0 c:
?

> I'm surprised that so many people don't like CCs.  When I send a
> message, I want to know if somebody replies.  Without a CC (or the
> above) I won't get the reply until the next time I check the list, and
> then only if read every message on the list or remember which subject
> lines I've been following lately.  One person mentioned that he
> doesn't like to reply to the CC and then find out that the message was
> also on the list; I agree, but I usually remember to look at the
> headers to see if it's a CC.

It's clearly a matter of preference.  I just wish all mailers were smart
enough to allow you to specify that preference reliably using headers.

> Note: I replied to Kjetil's message by "reply all", deleting the
> contents of the "to" and "cc" fields, and typing the list address.
> Which sort of answers Monique's original question.

And explains why so many people don't "fix" the defaults ... that
sounds like a pain!

-- 
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!!



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