Re: learn to email

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:26:26PM -0500, Noel L Yap wrote:
> > When replying to an email list, the replyer cannot assume that the replyee is on
> > the email list (and therefore will get duplicates).  Neither can list members
> > remeber who is on the list and who is not.  Getting duplicates when on an email
> > list is a fact of life, deal with it yourself; don't ask others to deal with it
> > for you.
>
> While I don't like the way Tom used to say this I think we all would
> have an advantage if everyone would care a little bit for his/her
> mail recipients. The default case should be to send a reply only to
> the list except when one explicitly says "I'm not on the list".
>

Well, Chris could modify the server rules to do that.  But, I don't think it wise.
I'm on several lists and those that don't put Reply-to headers for you always send to
all parties regardless.  Open lists such as cygwin@cygwin.com warrants a Reply-all.
You never know when you might lose a non-member in the thread by someone removing
that address undesireably.  They also all suggest that it is the recipient's problem
to deal with the duplicates by filtering.

>
> And btw. I would like to ask again for shortening a reply to it's
> relevant parts instead of sending the whole message of the original
> sender again and again.
>

Yes, especially, it isn't necessary to quote the entire cygcheck output.


>
> Everyone aware of netiquette rule 4?
> http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/0963702513p39.html
>

Uh, oh, watch out, Ann Landers is on the list ;^).

Cheers,
Earnie.


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