----Original Message---- >From: Christopher Faylor >Sent: 28 April 2005 17:26
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:10:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> ----Original Message---- >>> From: Christopher Faylor >>> Sent: 28 April 2005 04:40 >>> So, just to close the loop, the place where this should probably go is >>> to the overseers list with a suggested change for the sourceware >>> mailing list FAQ at http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq . >> >> Well, I'm not going to suggest it there myself, because PCYM.... is an >> entirely cygwin-list-specific thing. (I've noticed we have very >> different etiquette here from the remaining sourceware lists, all of >> which are much keener on quoting people's email addresses and indeed on >> Cc'ing everyone in the thread personally rather than keeping it to the >> lists and PCYMing.) > > That's just bad manners and laziness, however. Well, I'm not as certain as all that myself. It seemed to me to be just a very different culture, but maybe it's just that there isn't as much self-enforcement of community standards on those lists as there is in here? > Also, > you will occasionally see "Don't cc me" in any of the other active > lists. True. But pretty rarely as compared to how often you see it complained about here, whereas you see it *happen* an awful lot *more* often than it happens here. > In any event, I wouldn't have suggested it if I didn't think that it > would receive some consideration in the overseers list. It has come > up there before, IIRC. OK, that's something I just didn't know, so I'll reconsider. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
