On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote: > 6. Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender > and to FreeBSD-questions. Many people on the FreeBSD-questions > are "lurkers": they learn by reading messages sent and replied to > by others. If you take a message which is of general interest off > the list, you're depriving these people of their information. Be > careful with group replies; lots of people send messages with > hundreds of CCs. If this is the case, be sure to trim the Cc: > lines appropriately. >
Hmmm... seems like I remember this as a big no-no on some other list, as it stated that most people who submitted messages were probably also subscribed, and it was an irritation to them to see duplicates to all the replies. I know I am slightly annoyed when I see that, but only slightly. It finished saying that anyone who wanted a personal reply to state so, but if they didn't, I'd hate not knowing if they received my reply just because I assumed they were subscribed. I guess I'll just have to adjust... -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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