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Re: stupid question about setting my debian system and email



James Griffith wrote:
Thanks I hope you don't mind me putting the response up for people to
see. I'll try it out. If you do mind I'm very sorry and will never do
that again.

James Griffith

I am not sure what other online discussions you have participated in,
but I can assure you that unless your message has content that is not
appropriate for the whole list (and the whole world, via the online list
archives) to see, there is not a problem.  In fact, it always preferable
that you reply to the list instead of the individual.  There are several
reasons for this:

- I know Ron reads the mailing list traffic quite frequently.  Thus,
  there is probably little need to CC him.  Most folks prefer to not
  receive additional mails in the form of CC'd mailing list posts.  If
  someone specifically wants a CC, they will usually ask in their post
  or have a line to that effect in their .sig.
- The Debian community thrives on openness.  If you read some the
  archives of the debian-devel list you will see lots of flame wars
  about various aspects of the Debian distribution.  You will quickly
  see that people share their opinions and experiences freely on these
  lists.
- A sense of closure.  Because these list discussions are archived
  online for the whole world to see, many people come across the
  information contained in the list through a web search.  Thus, they
  will read a thread of messages to see if it helps them solve their
  problem.  So, if someone suggest a course of action to you, it is best
  to reply with a report on whether or not it worked for you.  That way
  whoever later comes across this, will have complete information.
  Things like this are also why it is important to mark your subject
  line OT if the thread begins to wander.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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