Attention: Garrett Cooper (Was: SSH with Public Key Authentication)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-03 13:48, david bryce <davidbryce at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 02:33:00 -0500, "Parv" <parv at pair.com> said:
> > in message <1138851479.22819.253344183 at webmail.messagingengine.com>,
> > wrote david bryce thusly...
> > >
> > > Thanks for replying, Garrett!
> >
> > Would you please stop changing the Subject to some meaningless text?
> > If you need attention of someone in particular, please just send
> > them the mail directly.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, Parv. I will take care in the future
> to avoid this from happening.
>
> Is there any way of replying to a message from the list without
> subscribing to the list? If the poster cc'ed me when he sent the
> message to the list, I know I can just reply to that and cc the
> list, and the freebsd archive web page knows automatically to
> attach my message to the thread. But what if the poster didn't
> cc my email? Or if I just want to reply to a message that wasn't
> sent to me?

All the mailers have a "reply to all" or "group reply" feature.

Just use that by default, and limit "reply" (to the author only) for
responses that you really mean to be personal.

Parv is also right that manually editing the subject to add "Attention
Foo Bar" is annoying, as it tends to break sorting of the messages by
subject and then by date.