On Sun 2000-10-08 (17:28), Robin S. Socha wrote:
> >> No. Reply-to-Recipient is necessary and sufficient.
> > And what if the sender isn't on the list?
>
> Then the sender should ask for a Cc: - remember kids, it isn't called
> Courtesy Copy for nothing. Sending a Cc: to someone obviously subscribed
> to a list is the exact opposite of courtesy (and a straight way into
> many killfiles including mine, courtesy of procmail). As I said before:
> if you think you need to use Outlook or similarly defective "programs"
> use them for what they were made for: reading mail. Not writing.
As per usual, this is dependent on the specific list or community. Most
of the lists I'm on are of the opinion "If you don't want Cc's, set your
Reply-To or Mail-Followups-To correctly" and admonish people who don't
"use their MUAs correctly and Cc the people involved in the thread".
(FreeBSD, security, LUG, sysadmin, and "South African Internet" lists)
The reason: People are often on multiple lists, and take interest in
threads as they read and reply to them. They tend to ask questions or
state problems, or help others, and they'd like to know immediately and
separately about replies.
They tend to use procmail or maildrop or filter or whatever to sort
mailing list stuff into mailing list folders, and have personal mail,
including mails in reply to mailing list posts, going to one folder.
Of course, if you're only on one or two lists, and only get little (<
50-100) email a day, you might actually feel the hit, but if you're on
many lists and get quite a bit of email, it's infinitely more convenient
to deal with it like the above. Having to remember which specific lists
that you've asked questions or given help on to trawl for replies is not
productive.
Not saying that anything of the above is "more correct", just that it at
the very least depends on the group.
Oh, and I learnt that 'Cc' and 'Bcc' meant carbon-copy, not courtesy
copy, and at least the mutt manual also uses this convention. RFC822
doesn't define 'Cc' itself, but refers to 'Bcc' as "blind carbon".
Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
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