Re: Carbon copy?

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi Grzegorz, hi.

Grzegorz Szymaszek - 29.08.24, 07:10:07 CEST:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 12:21:17AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Huh? In most of the Debian mailing lists I participate in no one does
> > that.
> 
> For what its worth, there’s some guidance at
> https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html
> 
> and it reads:
> > When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon
> > copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be
> > copied.

Thanks for digging that out. That exactly matches what I thought I knew 
about the default in Debian mailing lists.

Would have been good if I did this before I was asking about here on the 
list. :)

> It gets difficult in case of users first time posting to a Debian
> mailing list: did they read the Code of conduct, are they subscribed?
> Some MLs allow to browse the list of members, but I don’t think
> lists.debian.org allows that.

I'd always thought it to be the responsibility of the poster to state in 
case they are not subscribed. However… that falls short if they do not 
know any netiquette or code of conduct either or simply do not understand 
how a mailing list works.

Anyway… I now explicitly mentioned to please not sent carbon copies to me 
for this list. Let's see how it works out.

I bet this could conclude the topic. One could argue for one or the other 
way to approach things till the end of time. But I'd argue my and the 
other's time is spent better in another way.

It is similar about whether to great people at the beginning of the mail 
or not. I find it polite and often do it, however… I also found that people 
not doing it most often do not mean this as being rude to others. So I 
tolerate it either way.

Best,
-- 
Martin - please no carbon copy to me