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Re: Thought on receiving two answers...



On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:11:29AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes:
> > > Problem already solved.  The Debian list guidelines already make it
> > > clear that it is not acceptable to CC someone privately if you are
> > > posting to the list, and all quality mail clients have "Reply to
> > > Mailing List."
> >
> > How Debian...
> >
> > "I'm _shocked_ that you didn't know that!  It _clearly_ says in footnote
> > 5 of paragraph 17 of subsection 43 of section 3 of article 9 of the
> > rules, that one shouldn't do that.  Except of course on Mondays in
> > Botswana where it might be OK, if a quorum has been achieved (using
> > modified Finberger criteria)."
> >
> > -Miles
> > --
> > `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
> >  that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
> >  less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> What qualifies as a quorum on a mailing list this size?

A quorum?  The list administrator(s) form a quorum.  They rarely 
interfere in anything unless they see action is needed to maintain the 
freedom of the list.

And about CCing:  You can CC: the person you are replying to it he's 
asked for it. 

-- hendrik



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