Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- From: Chuq von Rospach <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:03:26 -0800
On 12/28/01 8:07 AM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Could you all please stop sending your message to every address that
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the previous poster just happened to add? I'm getting tired of
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needlessly receiving duplicates of many of this list's messages.
Then you should teach your client to strip duplicates out or your incoming
mail stream. Trying to get everyone else to do it the way you prefer won't
work, and forgets that there are are lot of different people on the list,
and they have their preferred ways to use the list, too. Would you be happy
if someone came up and said "I insist you CC me on all mail you send to the
list?" of course not. And you'd ignore them, most likely.
So show the same tolerance of other people's preferences that you'd want
shown to yours. People use the lists the way THEY feel comfortable with. If
you want it to look a certain way, teach your client to do it for you, don't
try to retrain the hundreds of folks on the list that what you want takes
precedence over what everyone else wants.
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Suggestion to Chuq: How about adding a Reply-To:
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<email@hidden> header?
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