From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 3:31:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5915C37B41A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99599 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2001 11:31:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15364.51970.909835.759019@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:31:14 -0600 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Email Etiquette on this list In-Reply-To: <105866107@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick O'Reilly types: > Question: Who should responses go to. My habit, as you can see in this > message, is to respond to the poster directly, as well as to the list. That's the protocol for this list. Actually, you should send it to everyone it was Cc'ed to as well, though that's not something I normally do to a list. > This way, posters who are not subscribed will still get the response, > but those who are subscribed will get it twice. I'm not sure which is > the lesser of the two evils? Since this list is advertised as *the* address for help with FreeBSD, you'll get lots of people asking questions who aren't on the list. Hence letting subscribers see it twice is the lesser of two evils. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message