On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 07/02/2013, at 12:05 PM, Sheng Yang <sh...@yasker.org> wrote: > >> The previous setting won't respect CC after the CCed guy replied mail. >> I don't think that's useful. >> >> I truly believe it's developer's responsible to keep track of their >> own topic, but I also think make it easier for developer to keep track >> is better. >> > > This seems like an edge case to me... most of the time a developer that > contributes to a thread will remember to follow that subject (as I am doing > here). If that might be a problem, they have alternatives: > - CC themselves on messages they send, so they remain on the CC list > - set up filters to label threads that include their name > > Do these seem like better alternatives than altering the list reply-to?
Don't think it's edge case, otherwise LKML won't encourage CC. The old policy just can't scale - if we would have a even bigger community later. And: 1. Information redundancy, and not elegant. If you send out a mail, why you cannot receive the reply address to you unless you CC yourselves? It wouldn't happen when you send mail to a friend. 2. Mail filter based on the email header is most efficient, not on context. And it's not the same thing, e.g. I don't think Linus Torvalds would care much if someone mentioned him by name in one mail context of the mailing list, unless it's addressed to him(even so, if he doesn't have interests, he won't care). --Sheng > > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > http://twitter.com/brettporter > > > > >
