On Sat, Apr 27, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: weird stuff in linux-il": > In other words: Reply-To: keeps the discution to exatly one list, without > hope to "invite" others, or to allow a discuion to span more than one > list.
Right. And that is a bad thing, how? Discussions *should* be kept to one list. Crossposting should be kept to an absolute minimum, and only when the poster (and not someone who started this thread 50 messages ago) is sure this is really appropriate. When a 50-message thread gets crossposted in its entirety just because the first message was interesting to both lists, this annoys people. It reminds me one thread on both linux-il and some international mailing list about bidi, that somehow got turned into discussing the finer points of the Hebrew language. After the first few messages, this thread was highly inappropriate to be crossposted to the other list (not to mention CC's to a few people who don't know a word in Hebrew), but the "g"roup-repying of linux-il subscribers meant it continued to be cross-posted. Note that Ivrix-discuss subscribes (in your example) could, if they wanted, hit the "g"roup reply to get the message to both lists (*and* personal CC to the poor people who got involved sometime during the thread) just like people on linux-il *have* to do. But they didn't want to. See, when someone has the option to "R"eply only to the list, they actually prefer to do that, and not crosspost to everybody and their uncle. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Apr 27 2002, 15 Iyyar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I don't eat snails. I prefer fast food. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
