Re: netiquette: CCing on lists
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the
> > technical ability to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't
> > understand choose not to do so and instead depend upon the charity of
> > the mailing list posters to cater to their reply whims. This, to me,
> > seems silly, but as I said, there's obviously something there that I'm
> > not understanding.
>
> Here's my reason for disliking this approach. If a mail is sent to both
> me and a mailing list, it's very likely that the one sent directly to me
> will get there first, since it doesn't incur list processing delays, and
> therefore the direct copy is the one that the filter will usually keep.
> Thus, such a duplicates filter does precisely the wrong thing: I want
> all the list traffic to end up in the list mailbox, not in my inbox!
Oh, interesting. Not only do I have duplicate filters, my filters still
see that it was for debian-user and place it in the correct mail box.
Unless someone bcc's debian-user.
So I can see if you had setup your own "mail filter system" based on
mail only coming from the list server then CC's would break your setup.
I guess I always expected to never be able to control what people send
me (regardless of list policy) and thus think it's my problem dealing
with it. Especially on a list like debian-user where there's no
subscription required, there's lots of newbie posters, and people come
and go often. I run a few small, stable lists (a hundred or so people
each) and even there it's impossible to get people to follow the list
rules. So the idea of trying to convince everyone why my ideas are best
for everyone else, I just deal with in on my own machines where I
actually have some control.
Is CC'ing at epidemic levels on debian-user? I find off topic threads
more of a problem. ;)
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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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