ITP: profile

Corinna Vinschen cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Mon Jul 29 06:00:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:46:59AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> In response to this email I hit Reply-All.  If you don't set Reply-To
> then this email is sent to you in response and the list is CCed.  I and
> others don't adjust the distribution as I/we can't remember the names of
> the 1000's of people on this list.  It's you who needs to adjust the
> headers not me or someone else.

That's not true.  IMO it's the sender of a mail as well who could
switch on parts of his/her brain when replying to mails.  Why e. g.
don't you use the "Reply to list" function of your mail client?  It's
so easy. and it's also good style to send mail only to the list.
I can't see *any* reason that somebody is forced to set the reply-to
in his/her mail just to not receive two copies of mails to the list.
Personally I'm doing this stuff just since I know that so many people
on the list don't do what I suggest in my first sentence:  Switching
on the brain when replying to mailing list postings.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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