Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:27:18 -0600 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions Message-ID: <E537420B-0E19-4684-89A9-E72625E92C7C@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop> References: <45D9739B.5020906@yahoo.gr> <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop>
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[mailed and posted and cc'ed to grog] On Feb 19, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > There is a very good reason why it is customary in this mailing > list to > copy the sender when replying. We don't accept email messages only > from > subscribers. This means that some people may post a question without > even being subscribed to the list. By Reply-To: header "hacks", like > the one you are describing, the original poster may never see your > reply. Thank you for that explanation. It might be a good idea to add this to point 6 of section 8 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd- questions/index.html I was initially surprised by the conventions used on this list, but am growing more accustomed to them and trying to comply, even thought it isn't what I do for most of the lists I'm on. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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