Re: OT: To CC or not to CC? (was: Sorry for posting the same message twice)
On December 4, 2015 5:54:50 PM EST, Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> wrote:
>Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
>
>> your message went through, I simply decide to ignore you for a while
>> because you CCed me on a mailing list that I subscribe :P
>
>But how can I know that you, or someone else, is subscribed? In this
>particular case it's of course quite obvious, but I believe that
>instead
>of asking oneself this question each time when replying to some message
>on some mailing list, CCing the author by default is the only
>reasonable
>policy. People who are annoyed by receiving the same message twice can
>quite easily configure any good MUA to hide messages that also go to
>lists that they read anyway.
Debian has a policy for this:
https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
Scott K
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