I would have thought the biggest problem with a Cc list is keeping the list up to date. If new people need to be added, removed or updated, people may use an old list for a long time after. It may be impossible to get some people to update it ever, or they might update then revert to an old one.
If it's only a few people then a cc list can work ok, but it can be near impossible to set up usable message rules. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad > On 3 Dec 2014, at 1:39 pm, Barry S. Finkel <bsfin...@att.net> wrote: > >> On 12/2/2014 6:05 PM, r...@rexgoode.com wrote: >> I have been a long-time user of mailman and have been on many mailing >> lists. >> >> I am also part of a professional association of social workers that >> operate in my area. They have been using a list of addresses in a Cc >> field to manage their mailing list. I can't imagine anything more >> fraught with problems than that, but I can't convince these people to >> let me host a mailman mailing list for them. >> >> I can think of a lot of advantages myself, but I'm wondering if anyone >> has seen a good list somewhere. I'm a strange combination of software >> engineer and social worker, so I understand both worlds. My social >> worker colleagues tend to think of something like a mailing list as >> complicating things rather than simplifying them. >> >> I'm not necessarily asking for a discussion here, but I'd like some >> feedback on this. >> >> Viva Mailman! >> >> Rex Goode > > Using a "Cc:" list has problems: > > 1) Someone might omit one or more addresses, and then some of the > intended recipients will not get the e-mail. And it may be a > different group, depending upon which sender omits which addresses. > > 2) An e-mail with too many recipient addresses might be classified as > spam by a recipient's ISP, and using a "Bcc:" list avoids this > problem but then no one knows the entire recipient list for replying. > > These are the first two that come to mind, and I think that with these > two, you do not need any more reasons to avoid using a Mailman list. > > And Mailman provides an archive of the postings and can control > who can post to the list. > > --Barry Finkel > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/pshute%40nuw.org.au ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org