[Not CC-ed to poster, since that appears to be his preference :-) ]
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 18:52, Steve Lamb wrote:
> CCs should not be the norm. on mailing lists. The whole point of the
> mailing list is to avoid the many problems associated with large discussions.
Mailing lists have changed a lot since I started out on internet based
lists.
The convention used to be that issues were raised on the list. Then in
many cases discussion took part within a small subset of the list using
direct mail without the list being included. Then when some degree of
resolution was reached a summary was posted to the list itself -
sometimes sparking a bit more discussion. There was a push to keep
intermediate stuff off the list to keep traffic down. This was also a
sa very strong reason for not having reply-to list.
The norm now is that we have the discussions on the list itself.
> 1: CCs require each sender to send out large volumes of mail. The list means
> that only one location sends out large volumes and that location is willingly
> doing it.
Somewhat spurious - I trim CC lists down to a few (ie <5).
Nigel.
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