On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 23:19 GMT, Bill Moseley penned: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a >> rant or flame ... >> >> For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, >> why do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so of which I'm >> unaware? > > I cc, but luckily my mailer mutt understands what you want. That's > good because I can't keep track of what the hundreds (thousands?) of > people on this list wish, and not all of them have smart mailers to > set the Mail-Followup-To header.
I wonder if there's a list out there of mailers that respect that header. It's too bad that not everyone follows it, but as I understand it, it's not actually part of any formal email spec ...? > Personally, I like the cc. If I ask a question and someone takes the > time to respond I like to get that message right away (yes, sometimes > there's a delay in debian-user). And when I reply to someone I assume > they want a response quickly, so I cc. I can certainly see where you're coming from. > Is it the cc you don't like or the duplicate mail? I like the cc's > but I hate the duplicates. And (also luckily) I run Debian and with a > simple additions to my .procmailrc I no longer have the duplicates: Well, as I mentioned in another post, I actually read the list through gmane, so detecting duplicates would be a hair trickier. Probably doable, but requiring more than a moment's worth of thought. Of course, I do understand that this is a mailing list, not a newsgroup, and so if I insist on doing things in a non-standard way, I'm inherently making my own life difficult. Call me a masochist =) -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]