Hopeless cause

[Pastor JW]

On Monday 15 February 2010 11:27:34 am Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> James Montgomery wrote:
> > Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> >> James Montgomery wrote:
> >>
> >> 	Hmmm, not a good idea. It would piss me off very quickly if I started
> >> getting a duplicate of every message when I'm part of a thread in a
> >> mailing list.
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > I would hope they weren't CC'ing the enitre thread every message....
>
> 	Yep, but people are, well, odd....
>
> > ... It's
> > customary to respond to a specific question in that fashion. Eg:
> >
> > User A Posts: $PROBLEM
> >
> > User B Replies directly to User A and CC the list (for archival purposes)
> >
> > Solved.
>
> 	To be honest, I've never heard of that custom in regards to email list
> participation. Every list I'm on, been on, or looked at, all agree.
> Replies should _only_ go to the list. Never CC the original poster.
> Because the original poster could inadvertently reply to the direct
> message ( and not the list version) and some useful information is not
> sent to the list.

Exactly!  I too would set a user that would cc me in addition to replying to 
the list to the plonk bin.  




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