Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:03:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <19990420120347.I40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <8061.924575152@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:25:52PM -0700 References: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> <8061.924575152@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 19:25:52 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both >> lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > > I think you're ignoring human nature here - one cross-posted message > invariably (and I mean almost *always*) leads to every single reply > which follows it going also to multiple lists. For really > contraversial threads, you can also count on the cross-posting fest to > eventually mutate to the point where the messages being cross posted > have nothing to do with *any* of the lists they're being posted to, > making hash out of the "relevance" argument. Agreed. That's a separate issue, though. I was referring to a case where the message really is relevant to several groups, and most members are on more than one of them. An allied problem is when following up to a message, it's appropriate to include the people personally, even though they're on the list, so that their mail reader has the opportunity to flag the message accordingly--thus I have replied to you and cc:d -chat, even though you're on -chat. > And don't say it doesn't happen because I've probably chewed you out > as much as anyone for ignoring inappropriate cc lines in your own > replies. :-) Sure. I certainly wasn't going to say that. But I do change the subject line where appropriate. And to avoid more chewing out, I've taken the others off the cc: list. > When you're dealing with hundreds of emails, the predilection for > simply replying without ever even looking at the cc lines is very > strong indeed. Right, that's why we've caught you at it, too :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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