On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/17/25 4:27 PM, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > Thanks for helpful reply. Unfortunately, as I receive only the user digest > > mail > > and you did not include me in the To or Cc lists, I didn't receive this > > mail in > > my inbox, so I did not notice it until much later when checking one of the > > mirrors. > > > > Is it considered "wrong" to Reply-All around here? On other lists of this > > style > > I use, we encourage Reply-All to keep folks who participate in the > > conversation > > receiving email. I want to learn the norms of this community, though. > > > My email client supports "Reply", "Reply all", and "Reply to list", and > for emails coming to me via a mailing list, the third is the default > action. I had to go out of my way to Cc you here.
No longer, although thanks ;) I've adjusted my subscription settings. > For users subscribed to all emails (not just digests), being in Cc is > technically redundant, and depending if the list software lacks support > for "do not send me a copy of emails I am in Cc for" (GNU Mailman has > this feature, I have not seen it elsewhere!) it may result in > *subscribed* users getting duplicate mail. > > For users *not* subscribed to all emails, Cc is of course necessary or > else nobody will see messages intended for them. > > So really in my experience it tends to be that "Reply all" is culturally > a personal habit localized to each list, based on whether any given list > tends to have "most users" subscribe to all emails. For example, > [email protected] is high volume and *very common* for users to only > be interested in a subset of topics, so the culture arose to Cc all > interested users. > > I think ideally lists would support the cool GNU Mailman feature I > mentioned, and everyone would then happily use "Reply all" and get the > best of both worlds... > > > (I already get lots of duplicate emails whenever my personal address and > a Gentoo team alias I am on the forward list for such as > [email protected] are both in Cc. I've learned to shrug and move on when > I get dupes.) > > > -- > Eli Schwartz All fair enough—thanks for the details! -- D. Ben Knoble
