Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
Because it is bloody annoying that's why.
> > When you consider that 99.9% of the people posting to this list are
>
> Errrm.... I don't think that's true.
Well, they should be. And if they are not they should say so in the
message. Then we could encourage them to subscribe because then they
would learn other things as well.
> > 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.
How could it not be a waste of time and bandwidth?
Granted, you only have to write the reply once. But if you use
sendmail and send your emails directly to the recipients it takes
extra time to send all the Cc's and of course uses extra bandwidth.
And if you send all your outgoing mail to the mail server at your ISP
the time and bandwidth are wasted for the ISP when it sends your mail
on.
> If they don't want both of them, then they can nuke one without it ever
> getting read (with procmail, or whatever).
Agreed. How many newbies do you know that are comfortable with
setting up procmail recipes
> 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.
If the author wants a quick response the author should say so in the
message. Something like... "this is really urgent, could you please
send any replies directly to my email address, thanks"
> 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'm advocating that people _only_ reply to the list that way we all
can benefit from the answers
> 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.
There's nothing wrong with your habit, except that it is backwards.
Turn it around... Always reply to the list and Cc the author if you or
they will benefit from it.
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