On 11/10/11 2:25 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote: > Hi all, > > as disc...@openjdk.java.net was in the cc-list of those 3 posts, I just did > "answer to all", as I thought my post would be interesting to all > participants.
While that is an understandable opinion on the side of any e-mail author, in practice it is very rare that any single e-mail message is interesting to all participants on any single mailing list, not to mention on multiple ones. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Crossposting . > I think, list moderators should accept such posts from un-subscribed senders, > to avoid communication thread gaps. No. As a list moderator for a couple of lists, I should point out that I almost never moderate any posts through, with the one exception being mercurial commit messages, since missing those confuses people about commits. > What is the right behaviour here from posters side? Subscribe to a list in order to post to it. cheers, dalibor topic -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | Mobile: +491772664192 <tel:+491772664192> Oracle Java Platform Group ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
