From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 13:18:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10190 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from multivac.orthanc.com (root@multivac.orthanc.com [204.244.20.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10184 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lyndon@localhost) by multivac.orthanc.com (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id NAA03268 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:18:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601032118.NAA03268@multivac.orthanc.com> X-Authentication-Warning: multivac.orthanc.com: Host lyndon@localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TCP) To: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: lyndon@orthanc.com Subject: Wasteful e-mail messages Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 13:18:15 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Have we all forgotten the golden rule of email? Praise in public. Flame in private. Also, when replying to messages it is NOT mandatory to CC the mailing list. We could easily cut the volume of traffic on the FreeBSD mailing lists in half if people stopped automatically CCing replies to the list. Let's use a bit of common sense. Please? --lyndon