From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 19 16:27:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB1716A400 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC47013C461 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FAC1B5DD8; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:28:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:28:39 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: SSmKDtn21SgqO62yDBVpaUHeLc37C9uBHm0c1zaZ5PJJ 1171902519 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC89A23F91; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:28:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop> References: <45D9739B.5020906@yahoo.gr> <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:27:18 -0600 To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:27:49 -0000 [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/