RE: netiquette: CCing on lists

["Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>]

> 
> I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather 
> than a rant or flame ...
> 
> For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing 
> list, why do you do this?  Is there some benefit to doing so 
> of which I'm unaware?
> 
> I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header set on my 
> outgoing messages, which should be a clue for some readers. 
> (I was told that gmane would translate Mail-Copies-To to 
> Mail-Followup-To automagically.) I put a comment in my sig 
> requesting that I not receive CCs, and I swear that the 
> number of CCs I received actually increased!
> 
> What can I do that will convince habitual CCers not to CC me? 
>  Are there technical means beyond the Mail-Followup-To header?
> 
> -- 

I expect it is a combination of mail readers and peoples habits.

If I click 'reply' in Outlook 2002, it will have your email addy, if I click
'reply to all' it will have the debian-user addy too.

I am on other lists, and 'reply' will use the list address for them.
Those messages have, among others, the following headers set to the posting
address for that list.

Resent-From:
X-Mailing-List:
X-Loop:
Reply-To:
List-Post:

I do not know which makes outlook work, but for debian-users I would have to
'reply-all' and delete the senders addy.  I do not always remember to.

matt