On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:28:32PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hey Bart, > > It's pretty much up to you. I like to respond to the list becuase this can > often help others. I rarely CC anyone unless another person is having > similar problems I am (and you just KNOW that's rare!). > > tatah > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > > since i am quite at mailinglists like these, i was wondering, what is the > > best way of replying to a posted message? reply to sender only, to list > > only, or to sender with a CC to the list? > > > > i would like to know, because i keep getting all replys to my own posts > > twice. i there some convention? some sort of mailinglist-iquette or > > something? > > > > bart > >
I think the rule of thumb for mailing lists is to treat them like newsgroups. That is, post to the list, read on the list. That way lurkers can read a whole thread -- and the whole thread will make sense. There's no reason to CC someone if your posting to the list, since then the person gets two copies (annoying). Non-topical issues (i.e. not about Debian/Linux) should go "off-list" in general. My 2ยข... -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
