Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:36:34 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20070219113634.e3b04da6.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <E537420B-0E19-4684-89A9-E72625E92C7C@goldmark.org> References: <45D9739B.5020906@yahoo.gr> <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop> <E537420B-0E19-4684-89A9-E72625E92C7C@goldmark.org>
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In response to Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>: > [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. Odd. I find it reasonably common. The PostgreSQL lists have it as a convention as well. Must be a BSD license thing. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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