Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:11:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Personally, I'm fine with giving up on the no-cc policy. Just about
> every other technical mailing list that I read tends to accumulate cc's
> until someone gets around to removing them, and mostly people just deal
> with a bit of grumbling. I think it's fine to encourage people to trim
> useless cc's when they know the person to whom they're replying is on
> the list, but in terms of the available options and what we can make
> people's clients do by default, I think getting an extra copy of mail
> occasionally is the least bad outcome. Currently, I think we go through
> too much emotional effort towards getting people to get rid of the cc's,
> with neither a lot of productive outcome nor a lot of potential for
> long-term improvement. I bet we could do as well on elimination of cc's
> with a request (rather than a policy) and some pointers to configuration
> for common MUAs.
+1
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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