Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:03:04 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: duane@greenmeadow.ca Subject: Re: Proper mail headers Message-ID: <20060131010304.GA72913@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20060130174119.6D3C016A44E@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060130174119.6D3C016A44E@hub.freebsd.org>
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> From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> > Subject: Re: Proper mail headers > To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <1138642424.9663.15.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:13, Duane Whitty wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling > > in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I > > just let let my reply go to the person named in Reply-To or should I > > reply to the list and CC the poster, or is it the other way around? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Duane Whitty > > > > duane @greenmeadow.ca > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd. > > Duane, > > I don't think that there is a right way to do it. I normally just hit > reply to all which normally does to: the original poster and cc's the > list. In this case it didn't as you have reply to: set as the mailing > list. > > Rob And please, ** LOOK ** at the recipients when you "Reply to all"... A lot of mor^H^H^Hfolks seem to think that if they cc the list twice, they'll get twice the response. There's no need to post two copies of the same message to the list. Case in point: > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org > You seem to have something misconfigured. This list frequently exceeds 100 > posts a day. Partially because folks such as this poster don't realize what they're doing.
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