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Re: Please no CC: (Was: [Re: read PS from console])



On Mon Sep  6 23:27:00 1999, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: Please no CC: (Was: [Re: read PS from console])":
> Andre, I see many lists where the common practice is to CC the 
> original sender. This is done mainly in support lists which have high 
> traffic. The reason for this is that many users on such lists are 
> subscribed in digest form.

Which brings up another question: why do people need digests anyway?
I have a mail filter which collects mailing-list email into special folders
(one for each list), and I read these folders whenever I want to - and when
I am waiting for an important reply on the list, I never have to wait for a
digest to arrive infrequently, and I can see the message as soon as it is
sent out.
Granted, this places a slightly higher load on my mail server (getting mail
more times a day) and the sender's mail server, but do people *really* care
about that? Does it really matter when ISP mail servers are huge million-
shekel machines, and when a simple pentium can easily handle the load of
a hundred heavy email users? For example, I am a relatively-heavy email user,
and get 50 emails a day (including mailing-lists) - not that hard a load
to handle.
I can easily see why mailing-list servers would prefer users using digests -
but not why the users should prefer them.

P.S. I'm sending this To: the person I'm replying to, CC: to linux-il. This
is because linux-il is one of the few mailing lists which doesn't have a
"Reply-To:" to the list, so a simple 'R'eply donsn't work, and I have to
add linux-il to the CC line :(

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