Re: Replying conventions

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Heh, ok, I think this thread has gotten long and meandered way off-topic 
and off-point, but as a quick summary/clarification prior to letting this 
thread die:

The original question was why anyone on the list would object to such a 
double-addressing of an email, when they are NOT the person who is going to 
get two copies (ie: they are just someone else who subscribes to the list 
and are annoyed for some reason).

As a hypothetical example picture me responding to this post To: 
jsage () finchhaven com, snort-users () lists sourceforge net and this causing 
someone else on the list like Erek or Marty to get bent out of shape (not 
that Erek or Marty would, this is a hypothetical example)

Based on the ensuing discussion, it makes sense why the original question 
author might object to getting two copies, i.e. John in my example, but why 
this would bother anyone else subscribed to the list is unclear. As I said 
before, the only thing I can think of is it might have caused a very lame 
mailfilter rule to fail to put my email in the proper mailbox, and that's a 
mis-configured filter rule on their end, not a problem on my end IMO.

In any event, sounds like it's more or less a moot point and this thread 
should die off. If someone has any good reason why such a reply format 
would be of detriment to the list as a whole, and not just the duplicated 
author, I encourage them to post it, but it sounds like everyone else has 
no better ideas about this than I do. :)

 At 11:54 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, John Sage wrote:
> Anyway, why *wouldn't* you want to post to the list and respond to
> the author also?
>
> Beats me..
>
> (hmm..  I have on occaision seen people with "Don't cc: me on replies
> - I'll take my responses from the list" -- which I do try to respect,
> when I notice).
>
> Or did I misunderstand the original question?



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