On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:52:21AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > FSVO 'spamming'. In particular for a meaning of 'spamming' which
> > includes merely causing them to receive an extra copy of a mail which is
> > descended from one of their _own_ posts. A copy which many people do
> > actually _want_, and which others can fairly easily filter out if it
> > really does offend them.
>
> They do?
What it comes down to is not personal preference, but the policies of
the list itself. If the list can be posted to by third parties,
dropping people from CC: is most definitely the wrong thing to do.
If the list only allows subscribers to post, replying only to the list
is the correct thing to do in every case, and the extra CC:'s are just
noise.
Two distinct cases, two distinct good practises. One "solution" does
not and can not apply to all cases.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
