Recipient list on FreeBSD mailing lists

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 01:25 -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:50:56PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 
> > Various other mailing lists dictates that posters reply to the list and
> > not the list _and_ the OP.
> > 
> > Guess this is different.
> > 
> > I still prefer for messages to be sent to the list.
> 
> Most people reading FreeBSD mailing lists are doing so in their spare
> time, or are only following things they find interesting.  I delete 99%
> of -questions without reading it, because I know from the subject
> lines that someone will already have answered the question before I
> get around to reading -questions, which is maybe two or three times a
> week.  I expect that's typical.  CC'ing the recipient helps insure
> that they see the response.  

I get the idea. Okay then, I'll abide.

(anyway, it's easier for me now then, since I don't have to manually cut
the "cc" to the "to"


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