On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/15/08 22:26, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote >>> about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the >>>>>> Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they >>>>>> requested it. Is that correct? >>>>>> >>>>> Yup. >>>>> >>>>> I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I >>>>> really, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Gmail. It's Evil. >>>>> >>>> How so? When I reply to an email to this list, gmail presumes I want to >>>> reply to the sender. I simply change the return address to the list. I >>>> manage several forums on which I set Reply-To to the forum address; >>>> gmail >>>> respects that. If there's a problem here, it's not gmail. >>>> >>> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html--<http://woozle.org/%7Eneale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html-->the >>> body of >>> which should actually be read after reading the first two references. >>> >> >> >> >> Oh, please. What the heck do you know about the forums I manage? >> > > Forums (fora?) "live" on web servers. Why should they care about Reply-To? > Which just goes to show that you, too, know nothing about the for(ums|a) I manage. They are indeed web-based, but they send and receive email posts. Hence they care. (And, as far as I know, "forum" has absolutely nothing to do with "web"; it's a term as old as the ancient Greeks, and I use it in that sense, as a place for rational discourse.) Patrick
