On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:55:48 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> It is list policy not to send private replies to list mail. And I >> thought that it was rude of you to email me privately, not to mention >> unpleasant. > > What you say is untrue. The code of conduct clearly states the > following: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > "Do not quote messages that were sent to you by other people in private > mail, unless agreed beforehand."
IMHO, that rule lacks the following preface: "Should a user states his/ her desire to keep a private conversation..." > I did not agree beforehand for you to quote my message. As a rule of thumb I always *reply* to the list and *resend* to the list all the messages I receive, unless: 1/ I know beforehand the person is replying me and can easily see the user wants to go private. 2/ The own nature of the message (i.e., it contains sensitive data). 3/ The user that replies to me *explicitly* states that he/she wants to keep an off-list conversation. > It would be kind of you to apologise. I hope you also did so when you sent the message to Lisi... > It is generally considered bad > nettiquette to send private emails to a mailing list and this list does > not appear to be an exception. No, it's the opposite. > In addition when replying the person's private email is copied in the > "To:" not the list's address. In my experience this generally means a > conscious decision was made to encourage replies to go to the individual > instead of the list. Sadly, that's not true at all. There are plenty of "broken" webmail services (i.e., Gmail) that by default reply to the user's e-mail address instead to the e-mail address of the mailing list and the user is not aware of this fact. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.05.11.20.30...@gmail.com