Re: cc'ing (was Re: Mozilla goes GTK+ instead of Qt)
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 04:03:43 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
>With the sheer quantity of email in this and other lists, I prefer Ccs
>myself because it allows me to easily read and reply to thee messages that
>are of relevance to me directly more easily.
But that is you, as an individual, not the list as a whole. I dislike
them immensely because of the bandwidth costs to my machine and the fact that
I get the list mail in the first place.
>I have said and continue to say taht the easy way to do this is to tell your
>MUA to add the simple header Mail-Followup-To:... Any MUA that doesn't
>honor this header is broken.
Which RFC is that header from? Not 822.
>I seldom use this. But it IS there. I group reply and trim by hand anyone
>who I notice has asked not to have Ccs if necessary, provided they haven't
>set the headers properly.
That is the entire list, by default.
>> In a perfect world yes. But sometimes the tradeoff is acceptable.
>I could give horror stories of this happening to other people... =>
In those cases I see the problem between chair and keyboard. They are
responsible for where their mail goes and if it is so sensitive that they
didn't doublecheck the headers, too bad.
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