From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwDuE-0002z0-Rg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwDuA-0002xC-40 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35600 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwDu9-0002x3-O9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:45 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:38890) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwDu9-0008B8-EI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:12:41 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-devel now defaults to reply-to "poster" Message-ID: <20090421111241.GB893@shareable.org> References: <49ED91DE.2040705@siemens.com> <6281256924-BeMail@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6281256924-BeMail@laptop> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Revol Cc: Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org François Revol wrote: > I thought the purpose of a mailing list was to handle the *list* of > people to **mail* to automatically... looks like offloading to humans > back... Nice idea. But it only works for low traffic lists and people who are not busy. Your idea of a mailing list doesn't work for people who don't have time to read the whole list, but who it's important to involve in specific threads. For example, someone reporting a bug should see the replies to their specific report, but often they won't have time to check the whole list every day for replies. Same for things which touch subsystems with specific maintainers. Cc lets you make sure specific people are involved in specific threads. Nobody's created a mailing-list header "X-This-Message-Is-Important-To-The-Following-People:" which you'd need otherwise. Cc does that job, and if you have a good mail setup then you don't see the message twice, it just flags it as important to the named people. Which is why most development lists use group-reply and Cc, and many where it's not important (such as chat lists) use list-reply. -- Jamie