[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> Thus spake Grant
>> Why does everyone reply to the person as well as CC to the list when the
>> person is on the list anyhow?

> Politeness.  You reply to the list so that others benefit from the discussion
> and you copy the sender since some people don't get to their mailing lists
> as quickly as their regular mail.  One assumes that they have slightly
> more interest in the answer since they asked the question.  Any good email
> client will filter out the dup.

Or, if you don't have such a good email client, see the "eliminatecc"
subscription option offered by our majordomo server.

A further tip: if you don't like getting multiple copies of messages
that are cross-posted to multiple lists, you can tell the majordomo
server
        set ALL unique

"help set" will extract a pretty useful description of all the options
majordomo supports (there are a lot of 'em these days).

                        regards, tom lane

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