From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 22 23:32:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D041106566B for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF06F8FC16 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:32:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:54634 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JdDCp-00028m-9M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:32:56 +0100 Received: (qmail 36700 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2008 00:32:54 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 23 Mar 2008 00:32:54 +0100 Received: (qmail 5959 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Mar 2008 00:32:54 +0100 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:32:54 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Tore Lund Message-ID: <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Tore Lund , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1206146157.6973.21.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <9CA3D4489328B8E911387EE0@Macintosh.local> <1206160383.6973.42.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <200803220724.05759.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <47E58E08.2040907@next.online.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47E58E08.2040907@next.online.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JdDCp-00028m-9M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JdDCp-00028m-9M 3feb4a04b3fcb2a58a80ff5a1f880e1c Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List replies 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: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:32:58 -0000 On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: > Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > [snip] > > As regards copying the original recipients, this list specifically requests > > it: check the regular posting titled ``how to get best results from > > freebsd-questions'', particularly para VII.6. > > I think you mean para VI.6. The gist of that paragraph is a wish to > avoid taking "a message which is of general interest off the list", > hence the advice to cc the list. There is no argument there about why > the sender should receive the mail. Indeed, such a practice is simply > counter-productive to the intention expressed, since copying the sender > increases the likelihood that a message (or even an ensuing discussion) > of general interest is taken off the list. > > I request that this misunderstood piece of "etiquette" is revised. If > someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use > FreeBSD at all, they also have the brains to come back here to look for > answers. Wrong. Not everybody who posts here is even aware that it is a mailing list, much less how to read mails sent to the list. There are reasons why this list is explicitly and deliberatly set up so you do not need to be subscribed to post here. If you want the full story search the archives. It has after all been discussed several times over the years - with pretty much the same arguments being made each time, and the same result in the end: no change in policy. I do not expect this iteration to be any different. > Copying the sender makes no sense at all, as far as I can see. > Whether or not headers should be modified is a separate matter. > -- > Tore > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se