Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:32:13 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop dead, suggestions? Message-ID: <446947BD.2060804@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <446940C9.7040404@rcn.com> References: <4468A0F9.6071.37FD6A10@dan.langille.org> <4468DF69.20702@ultra-secure.de> <20060515.141212.35690040.imp@bsdimp.com> <200605151710.39858.mistry.7@osu.edu> <44693597.1090007@pacific.net.sg> <446940C9.7040404@rcn.com>
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Hi, Gary Corcoran wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> What are the tricks I missed? > > > Why, WHY, oh *WHY*, do people change a post to the 'freebsd-foo' mailing > list > into _double_ posts to both 'freebsd-foo@freebsd' and 'foo@freebsd', which because it is confusing to have two lists for the same thing. I noticed this when I have had a question for a list I was not on. I did not know about the alias story until then. > lists, who should know better, blindly reply-all and keep up the replicated This could simple be avoided if the list manager would send out a proper 'reply-to' field. So, the direct reply would land always in the list and not at the writers desk. Not using 'reply all' confuses new members as they wonder why the list is not responding. Erich
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