On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:37:30 -0800 "Justin Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that > maybe I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good > source of information. I have thought of numerous things to bring up > in the presentation including rules about top-posting(not doing it), > tips to help keep the flow of conversation, and other various things. > There was one thing that I wasn't quite sure what everyone's opinion > was though. When replying to an email, is it proper to leave the > original poster in the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? Or > is it better to just send your reply to the list, not specifically > mentioning the original poster. Possibly it is acceptable to just do > whatever Reply All in your client gives you(I would think the effect > of this is configurable through the mailing list). I was curious if I > could get other's input on this matter. Also, if you can think of any > other good points to bring up during this talk, I would love to hear > them. The purpose of the talk is to help create better open source > community members for the future. So any help now could possibly save > you some heartache later :-). > > Thanks a bunch. > I think the answer is definitely DO NOT CC: :) If you look through the archives you will notice a few signatures like: "Do not CC, I read the list." This basically says it all: most of us are subscribed to the list. We get every mail sent to the list. Why would I need a CC? If I need one then I can ask for one using the Reply-To: field, or even directly. Which brings us (again) to the Reply-To question. Please read: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html You might also find useful: http://learn.to/quote and "Guidelines to post on debian-user" by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi (Raju): http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
