From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 6 8:25:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5A737BA3A for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12zKJT-000Bcs-00; Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:26:39 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12zKJT-0005Vq-00; Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:26:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:26:39 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Barton Cc: gh , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE Message-ID: <20000606152639.O42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <001301bfcd89$467130a0$2969a0d0@leviathan><200006021842.LAA24897@usr09.primenet.com><393855D9.F5F0E5F0@mail.ptd.net><20000603095822.A13686@physics.iisc.ernet.in><011b01bfcd75$3706e650$2969a0d0@leviathan><20000603225029.A13363@physics.iisc.ernet.in><001301bfcd89$467130a0$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3.0.6.32.20000604003206.008bb210@mail85.pair.com> <002501bfcefc$046dd310$2969a0d0@leviathan> <393C9255.15612D66@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <393C9255.15612D66@gorean.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > gh wrote: >> >> I am subscribed to the list, so the cc is unnecessary. > > It's a long standing tradition on internet mailing lists to cc: the author > of a response. It dates back to the days when mail delivery would take... > well... days instead of minutes or seconds. It's extremely unlikely (read, > impossible) to convince everyone on the internet to not cc: you, so much > better to learn how to cope. Personally I use procmail to filter the ones > addressed to me to my inbox, and delete the dupes. Personally I couldn't give a damn about the dupes. I get really annoyed when people _don't_ CC me because I don't have unlimited time to read mail. I'll read mail which drops into my inbox fairly quickly, but mail on a mailing list which happens to be a reply to one of my posts and directed at me might get missed. If gh doesn't want people to CC him, he should set Mail-Followup-To: the-mailing-lists-he-posted-to@example.com or whatever, in his headers. Any MUA should respect that, though I suspect not many do yet. (Mutt does at least.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message