Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed and will still get annoyed if they are CCed?

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-20 Thread Snood
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed and will still get annoyed if they are CCed?

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-20 Thread Joey Hess
Paul E Condon wrote: As a matter of fact, the current rule is helpful to me in assessing the advice that I get. If I get a CC, I think this guy isn't a real DD --- I wonder if he knows what he's talking about. Well, the only problem with that thought is that if you take a quick look at, say,

Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
Historically, debian-user, and all of the Debian mailing lists, have had a rule that you post and reply only to the list, and that you do not CC anybody unless they explicitly request a CC. I have been following that rule. However ... Recently, someone posted something to the list and CCed me.

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 19 March 2010 14:17:56 Stephen Powell wrote: There have been a number of times that I have not CCed people because they didn't explicitly ask for it, That' s it. Continue! Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Stephen Powell skrev: Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed and will still get annoyed if they are CCed? As a humble user, I do not know, but

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,19.Mar.10, 09:17:56, Stephen Powell wrote: Recently, someone posted something to the list and CCed me. Since I am subscribed to the list, I get a private e-mail for each posting to the list. If a poster also CCs me, I have been used to getting two copies: one directly (via the CC)

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:17:56 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: (...) Recently, someone posted something to the list and CCed me. Since I am subscribed to the list, I get a private e-mail for each posting to the list. If a poster also CCs me, I have been used to getting two copies: one directly

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:16:40 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,19.Mar.10, 09:17:56, Stephen Powell wrote: Recently, someone posted something to the list and CCed me. Since I am subscribed to the list, I get a private e-mail for each posting to the list. If a poster also CCs me, I have

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/19/2010 8:17 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Historically, debian-user, and all of the Debian mailing lists, have had a rule that you post and reply only to the list, and that you do not CC anybody unless they explicitly request a CC. I have been following that rule. However ... Recently,

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:23:44 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:17:56 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Recently, someone posted something to the list and CCed me. Since I am subscribed to the list, I get a private e-mail for each posting to the list. If a poster also CCs me, I

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100319_091756, Stephen Powell wrote: Historically, debian-user, and all of the Debian mailing lists, have had a rule that you post and reply only to the list, and that you do not CC anybody unless they explicitly request a CC. I have been following that rule. However ... Recently,

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Odd
Paul E Condon wrote: -snip- I think a 'no CC' message in a signature block looks unfriendly, even stupid. Like the legal notices about not reading wrongly delivered email. I would not want to create an environment in which any help giver felt an urgent need to do such. As a matter of fact, the

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:16, Odd iod...@runbox.no wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: -snip- I think a 'no CC' message in a signature block looks unfriendly, even stupid. Like the legal notices about not reading wrongly delivered email. I would not want to create an environment in which any help

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:33 -0400 (EDT), Odd wrote: Could you please explain what 'DD' stands for? I seem to have missed that one, sorry. I didn't write it, of course, but I think in this context DD means Debian Developer. Correct me if I'm wrong, Paul. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:16:33 +0100 Odd iod...@runbox.no wrote: ... Could you please explain what 'DD' stands for? I seem to have missed that one, sorry. Generally, Debian Developer. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net -

[Solved] Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:54:33 -0400 (EDT), Mark Allums wrote: On 3/19/2010 8:17 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: That makes me wonder if the list server has been smartened up No, probably more and more people have a mail UA that has reply-to-list, like Thunderbird 3. Or, your other message got

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: probably more and more people have a mail UA that has reply-to-list, like Thunderbird 3. Lenny's default Thunderbird (that is, 2.0.0.22) doesn't though. I believe it requires manually changing Cc: to To: in the list address and

Re: Mailing list policy change?

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-19 16:37, Clive McBarton wrote: Mark Allums wrote: probably more and more people have a mail UA that has reply-to-list, like Thunderbird 3. Lenny's default Thunderbird (that is, 2.0.0.22) doesn't though. I believe it requires manually changing Cc: to To: in the list address and