Dragaera

Mailing List Etiquette

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Tue Feb 10 18:16:43 PST 2004

Gaertk at aol.com writes:

> "Bryan Newell" <bryann at bryann.net> writes:
>
>> 1. When I reply to a message on this list, should I be 
>> replying to both the user and the mailing list, or just the 
>> list? 
>
> I only reply to the list.  Getting duplicates is mildly 
> annoying (mainly from the time it takes to realise I've
> already read this), but it's no big deal.  I believe people
> using Real Email Software don't even see the duplicates.

I had that for a while, but I turned it off.  I want the message
associated with the *list*, and often the direct copy arrived first,
so it was that copy that was kept and the list copy that was
discarded.  Oh well. 
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