On 27 Aug 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
> Why is it that practically everyone on this list insists on sending
> copies of their replies to both the list and all the previous posters
> in the thread?
>
Why not?
> When you consider that 99.9% of the people posting to this list are
Errrm.... I don't think that's true.
> also subscribed to it every time someone gets a reply to anything that
> they have posted they get two copies. Now that seems to me as being a
> big waste of time and bandwidth.
>
They may get two copies, but I don't see that as a waste of time or
bandwidth.
If they don't want both of them, then they can nuke one without it ever
getting read (with procmail, or whatever).
There are a few good reasons for doing it:
1) The author may well want a quick response - and a response via the list
may be slow, either because the list is congested, or because the
author only reads the list when (s)he gets time.
2) If the post contains any information and/or requests, it is sensible to
send it to the list so that anyone else to whom it is relevant sees it.
I always reply to the author, and Cc to the list if I can see any benefit,
to me or anyone else, of doing so. I see no good reason to change this
habit.
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Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Stult's Report:
Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is
fight the solutions.
