Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:50:03 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@aa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list addressing (was: Xemacs and Gnus) Message-ID: <20010807095003.C49903@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <upr8upytiu.8up@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@aa.net on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:42:33AM -0700 References: <200108061020.GAA28221@blount.mail.mindspring.net> <upr8upytiu.8up@localhost.localdomain>
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> What's the etiquette on addressing mailing list mail? (I've > limitted myself to newsgroups until now.) Are people expected to > have their mail readers set up to drop mail from both the human and > the list server? The usual convention is to put the human recipient in the 'To' field and the list in either the 'To' or 'Cc' field. Lurkers benefit from the reply on the list, and questioners who aren't subscribed (a considerable fraction) benefit from the individual reply. How you filter your mail is up to you, but duplicates (messages received both through list delivery and individual delivery) are directly related to posting, so only very frequent posters have to confront that issue, AFAIK. Everyone else can just tell their mail reader, or separate filter, to drop messages matching '^x-loop: freebsd\.org' (or something like that) in some special box and be more or less setup. > Is it OK to reply only to the list so those with crummy readers > don't get two? Probably not, unless you're off-topic, for the reasons stated above. I think it's fair to expect that the people for whom the duplicates could be problematic (frequent posters) have decent mail software that is configured properly. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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