On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:57:07 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> How does one send email to *THIS* list, without being subscribed in
> the first place?
You can do that on sites like GMANE; similarly, given a message ID,
you can request that specific from the mailing list daemon to land in
your inbox, which allows you even do a signed reply to it.
As you can see; there are people that want to participate only when
they are interested in it, rather than flood their mailing program.
Let's say you have a bug when you unmount a filesystem; so, you go look
on the LKML if there's something known about it. You'll find:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1671264
The thing is; you're not subscribed as you found it, yet you want to
reply to it without subscribing to its flood, what do? You send off a
single reply; then you expect someone that responds to CC you if that
person wants to tell / ask you something, otherwise you wouldn't know.
> But I'm not aware of any such mechanism on this list. If someone is
> involved in a thread here, then they've obviously subscribed here.
> So the CC: is redundant.
Invisible things are hard to be aware of; you assume that the person is
CC-ed, however, the person may have found the thread through GMANE _or_
the person might have been unsubscribed by the moment you make a reply.
We see similar things happen on IRC; someone asks a question, 2 or 3
minutes later they are gone. Sometimes they ask a question, but receive
no answer so they are gone 20 or 30 minutes later. Similarly; we're now
a month later in this ML thread, who says people are still subscribed?
On IRC, if you pay notice to the many join/part/quits and don't filter
them, you can still spot that with awareness; however, on ML you can't.
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With kind regards,
Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer
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