On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC > being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web > interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed > and will still get annoyed if they are CCed? I need some > guidance here. There have been a number of times that I have > not CCed people because they didn't explicitly ask for it, > but because they thought their problem was now solved, they > were not looking at the list anymore and therefore didn't see > my follow-up post offering a correction to an earlier mistake, > etc. > > I don't want people to miss posts because they aren't looking. > But neither do I want to annoy people.
It is policy not to CC unless explicitly requested, but sometimes discretion is called for. If a poster is obviously a newbie (you can usually tell by the content but also if the poster has not posted before.) it shouldn't hurt, although this is fairly rare. A lot of other lists CC on principle. The argument being that it is more important that the recipent receive the message in a timely manner (they may be subscribed to several mailing lists and not read them as often as their personal mail. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100320131118.ge4...@fischer
