Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the technical ability
to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't understand choose not to
do so and instead depend upon the charity of the mailing list posters to cater
to their reply whims. This, to me, seems silly, but as I said, there's
obviously something there that I'm not understanding.
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct item #9. It is against the list policy, plain and simple, to CC someone who doesn't request it. Look in the message, did they request it? No? Don't do it.
Just because I have the technical means to filter out spam doesn't mean I'm not going to complain about it to the appropriate people.
You have a point. However, I usually make an exception in the case of newbies becuase they may not receive list messages (because of Yahoo! or Hotmail spam filtering for such accounts). I know I had this problem when I first subscribed to the list. But otherwise, I tend to agree with the list policy that CCing someone that doesn't explicitly request it is impolite.
-Roberto
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