Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:42:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: learn to email Message-ID: <20010109224236.E24401@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <852569CF.007B4423.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> <20010110002903.J4141@cobold.vinschen.de> <3A5B7D5C.4B07B0FE@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A5B7D5C.4B07B0FE@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:37PM -0500 On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:26:26PM -0500, Noel L Yap wrote: >> > When replying to an email list, the replyer cannot assume that the replyee is on >> > the email list (and therefore will get duplicates). Neither can list members >> > remeber who is on the list and who is not. Getting duplicates when on an email >> > list is a fact of life, deal with it yourself; don't ask others to deal with it >> > for you. >> >> While I don't like the way Tom used to say this I think we all would >> have an advantage if everyone would care a little bit for his/her >> mail recipients. The default case should be to send a reply only to >> the list except when one explicitly says "I'm not on the list". >> > >Well, Chris could modify the server rules to do that. I've actually looked into adding a "X-Sender-Is-Subscribed: yes" field to the sources.redhat.com mailing lists but after doing some research I concluded that I couldn't do this in a clean fashion. And, if I did add this, I'm not sure that most people's MUAs are sophisticated enough to handle it anyway. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple