On 4/2/20 11:09 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 04:35, Bernd Edlinger wrote: >> Regarding the overseers, they repeatedly spoke up on this list, >> but all the time they use an e-mail that bounces. > > No. ONE of the overseers replies from a personal email address that > bounces, because as the address clearly says, you should contact him > via the list, not his personal address. And the relevant list is the > overseers one, not this one. > >> I'd call that impolite. > > No, it's impolite to ignore his request and try to reach him > personally, rather than via the list. It's perfectly reasonable to say > "please use the mailing list instead of emailing me personally". I do > that all the time when people reply to me off-list after looking for > help on gcc-help. >
Ah, okay, I did not look at it this way. There are a few people that send me mails where I do not even do that. I chose to ignore them.... But that excludes everybody on this list of course :-) Bernd.
