On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:55:48 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > > Lisi wrote: > >> It is list policy not to send private replies to list mail. And I > >> thought that it was rude of you to email me privately, not to mention > >> unpleasant. > > > > What you say is untrue. The code of conduct clearly states the > > following: > > > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > > > "Do not quote messages that were sent to you by other people in private > > mail, unless agreed beforehand." > > IMHO, that rule lacks the following preface: "Should a user states his/ > her desire to keep a private conversation..." >
+1 Unless the user states that it is a private email, or it is obviously discrete, the most expeditious thing is to forward it to the list. > > I did not agree beforehand for you to quote my message. > > As a rule of thumb I always *reply* to the list and *resend* to the list > all the messages I receive, unless: > > 1/ I know beforehand the person is replying me and can easily see the > user wants to go private. > > 2/ The own nature of the message (i.e., it contains sensitive data). > > 3/ The user that replies to me *explicitly* states that he/she wants to > keep an off-list conversation. > > > It would be kind of you to apologise. > I don't see the point. Given the choice of either assuming you simply misaddressed or assuming you didn't bother reading list policy, why assume the latter? The former seems more respectful. > I hope you also did so when you sent the message to Lisi... > > > It is generally considered bad > > nettiquette to send private emails to a mailing list and this list does > > not appear to be an exception. > > No, it's the opposite. It is also nettiquette to read list policy. > > > In addition when replying the person's private email is copied in the > > "To:" not the list's address. In my experience this generally means a > > conscious decision was made to encourage replies to go to the individual > > instead of the list. > > Sadly, that's not true at all. > > There are plenty of "broken" webmail services (i.e., Gmail) that by > default reply to the user's e-mail address instead to the e-mail address > of the mailing list and the user is not aware of this fact. > ergo the Mail-Followup-To: header. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110511223520.GA16659@Europa.office
