From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [META-LIST] Now: perennial "reply-to-all"
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:01:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817090150.GA1294@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008170732.10565@zmi.at>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:32:02AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Montag, 16. August 2010 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Why does "everyone" on this list "reply-to-all" when 99% of the time
> > it is totally unnecessary, redundant, and potentially ruffles a
> > sender's feathers, as in this case?
>
> I'm also on several lists, but the only list where reply-to-all is used
> is this one - so I followed the way it's done here without having
> questioned why.
It's done by all Lists in the Linux development universe, and it's the
only sane way to handle a list. We don't require people to subsribe to
post to the list, and keeping everyone in the To/Cc list means it
arrives at those people as well. In addition it allows subscribes that
are on tons of lists to prioritize discussions they're actually involved
in personally by getting a copy in the inbox that can be replied to ASAP
while also having an archived copy in the list folder. Every other way
to run a list is simply insane.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 11:00 Message to Stan Hoeppner Michael Monnerie
2010-08-13 11:58 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-08-13 12:36 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-13 14:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-14 5:21 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-08-14 9:49 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-08-15 18:52 ` Message to Stan - again Michael Monnerie
2010-08-16 8:37 ` [META-LIST] Now: perennial "reply-to-all" -- Was: " Stan Hoeppner
2010-08-17 5:32 ` [META-LIST] Now: perennial "reply-to-all" Michael Monnerie
2010-08-17 9:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-08-17 18:16 ` Stan Hoeppner
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