Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Cut of April DVD imminent

[Dustin Sallings]

On Apr 2, 2004, at 15:36, James Blackwell wrote:

> That would be anywhere from 5 to 20 times a day that I would have to 
> add
> that header by hand. Frankly it would be easier to set up a procmail
> script that /dev/nulls people that habitually cc me and the list.

> The simple fact of the matter is that I've got a peeve about people 
> using
> a private medium to post public messages. As my signature implies, 
> these
> messages are unsolicited (otherwise known as spam).
>
> I interpret people sending me a *private* copy of *public* mail as 
> pretty
> darn rude. What's more, I think some people (I'm not going to name 
> names
> here) actually do it out of spite. I can actually *feel* them saying 
> "Aha!
> Here's a chance to stick it to that bastard"

	The problem, though, is that you're posting to a public forum with a 
Reply-to header that suggests to reply to you privately which takes the 
discussion off the list.  If you consider your original message public 
enough to send it to the public forum with headers suggesting you want 
it to become private, that seems a little rude to me.

	I'm of the class of people who want the CC.  As far as I know, you're 
the only one who is adamant about being removed from the To header, so 
it's easy for me to remember when I'm responding to an email.

	It's inconvenient, though.  You're talking about having to manually 
add a header 5 to 20 times per day due to a limitation in your reader, 
but consider what you're asking everyone else to do.  Reply goes to 
you, with a Cc to the list in my mail reader (after all, you sent it).  
That means I have to remove the to, and then move the Cc to the To to 
get the desired effect (and I assume other people have to do similar 
when responding to a message from you).  Private responses are easier, 
but less frequent.

	Sometimes I forget, but it's not out of spite.  It might save us all 
some work if you modified (or configured) your reader to send messages 
that indicate your desired reply behavior so that it's all automatic 
and nobody has to think about it.

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Dustin Sallings