Re: netiquette: CCing on lists
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:51:14PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> You don't have to, the onus is on them to ask, explicitly, in the body
> of the message that they want a CC. If they don't ask and you don't send
> that is their problem. But sending a CC unasked you're causing unasked
> work for the person on the other end. Generally when one does that it is
> considered rude.
Matter of opinion, as I appreciate the CC.
And since it's one of those things where people have different opinions
I found it easier to deal with it on the one receiving side with procmail
than try to convince everyone else what my desires are.
> >Is it the cc you don't like or the duplicate mail? I like the cc's but
> >I hate the duplicates. And (also luckily) I run Debian and with a
> >simple additions to my .procmailrc I no longer have the duplicates:
>
> For me it is the CC. I get a reply from them and I presume they ment
> to send it off list. I then reply. Then I see the reply on list and
> realize my reply should have been on list. However since their reply
> off-list don't contain the list headers my client (well, not this one, but
> Sylpheed-Claws and Mutt, both of which I've used in the past week) replies
> directly to them and not the list. If I am lucky enough to read the list
> mail first (unlikely for a variety of reasons) then it goes to the right
> place.
Hum, I guess I don't have that much trouble. I posted a question a few
days ago and got a few CC's and responded to each of those back to the
list.
But you must have a point, I guess, because every so often people
complain about getting CC'ed, but you don't often see people complain
about not getting them...
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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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