On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 05:18 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > Usually only those who 'CC:' everyone they reply to, thereby doubling > the traffic.
Which I believe is actually how I ended up in your blacklist too, rather than sender verification failures. Opinions are divided on that topic, and I'm firmly in the _other_ camp. If you're posting a response to something I've said, then I consider it extremely impolite to drop my address from Cc. I subscribe to many mailing lists, and I don't pay _that_ much attention to all of them, all of the time. If I am participating in a thread, I really do want the responses landing in my inbox where I'll see them, rather than in a mailing list folder which I don't see for days or weeks at a time. Although I happen to be subscribed to the list on which I occasionally communicate with _you_, I also participate in many other mailing lists from time to time, without subscribing to each. The problem of list replies not landing in my inbox is even worse in that situation, because I don't receive them at _all_. The failure mode if you fail to Cc me is that you will cut me out of the conversation -- I may not see your response at all, or not until it's too late to sensibly respond. On the other hand, the failure mode if you _do_ Cc someone who didn't really want it is that they see a second copy of the email. I consider one of those to be more of a 'failure' than the other. Obviously it's unrealistic to expect that people will know the desires of their correspondent and Cc accordingly. A solution like Mail-Followup-To: would be nice but doesn't seem to be widespread enough to be particularly useful. So I default to Ccing you, and I'm afraid I don't really make any apology for it. -- dwmw2 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
