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Re: OT: General phylosophical thoughts about mailing lists behaviours
Nadav Har'El wrote:
> However, the reason I send this message to you too is a much more mundane
> reason - an issue I've raised here before but never got solved to my
> satisfaction. Unlike many other mailing-lists (including all the lists I
> run), in linux-il when you "Reply" to a message (using the normal "r"
> command in mutt or elm, for example) your email get sent to the person
> writing the message, not to the list [*]
..
> [*] I think that this reply-to-person default is evil in other ways, not
> just the extra-CC phenomenon. It also encourages people to reply to people
> directly rather than the list, and other people of the list don't get to
> enjoy (hopefully) the answers.
Sorry Nadav, I have to completely disagree with you here.
See http://www.halisp.net/halisp/reply-to-harmful.html
for a very good explanation why.
As for Shahar's original plight, some people (like yours truly) actually
prefer to get it twice.
The best thing to do would be for the mailing list manager software to
have a per user configurable
option to not send additional copies of messages that the subscriber is
already in their To: or CC:
So if anyone is interested in something to do in Yom Kipoor (assuming
you are not (Jewish && believers),
of course) hack <name of mailing list manager here> to do this ;-)
Gilad. ;-)
Gilad. ;-)
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Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
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