On Monday 01 June 2009 22:00:12 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > there is an increasing number of postings with loooooong lists of > > > recipients (10 addresses and more); usually several of these are > > > regular and active users of this mailing list so this is actually > > > redundant; > > > > It is not redundant -- including a person in the CC list brings the mail > > to their attention faster (and with less chances of missing it) than if > > they have to pick it out of the list. > > An email message is a message is a message, isn't it? The message on > the list and the Cc: are identical, aren't they?
No, they not identical. For example my internal mail filtering will move all mails directed to the list to a special u-boot list folder and those mails addressed to me directly not. So I see all mails addressed to me in my inbox which helps me to not miss anything relevant for me (ppc4xx etc). Best regards, Stefan ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
