Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the list, while my broken MUA didn't use the address, I used to subscribe to this list. So a smarter MUA should provide different reply settings for replying to different lists. I should take a look at the mailman settings, since at the moment I receive 2 mails in case of Cc'ing, IIRC this can be disabled. Mailing list settings may not help, since it's really up to the sender. But it's easy to filter out duplicates with maildrop or procmail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically reply to the list only. So IMO even for this list the advice should at least be, _if possible_ reply to the list only, if you want receive a copy directly, than ask the OP reply to the list and (carbon copy) me, but don't address it to somebody else. 2 Cents, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list Actually, I had written that in a reply. I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically reply to the list only. So IMO even for this list the advice should at least be, _if possible_ reply to the list only, if you want receive a copy directly, than ask the OP reply to the list and (carbon copy) me, but don't address it to somebody else. Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the list, while my broken MUA didn't use the address, I used to subscribe to this list. So a smarter MUA should provide different reply settings for replying to different lists. I should take a look at the mailman settings, since at the moment I receive 2 mails in case of Cc'ing, IIRC this can be disabled. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically reply to the list only. As a matter of fact, on the FreeBSD Questions list it is recommended to send to both the poster and the list. On this list it is not required to be subscribed to post. It is an open list. jerry So IMO even for this list the advice should at least be, _if possible_ reply to the list only, if you want receive a copy directly, than ask the OP reply to the list and (carbon copy) me, but don't address it to somebody else. 2 Cents, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
