> From: Robert Slade <bsd bathnetworks.com>
> Subject: Re: Proper mail headers
> To: "freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org"
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> Message-ID: <1138642424.9663.15.camellmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:13, Duane Whitty wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper
etiquette when filling
> > in my headers, especially when responding to
someone's post. Should I
> > just let let my reply go to the person named in
Reply-To or should I
> > reply to the list and CC the poster, or is it the
other way around?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Duane Whitty
> >
> > duane greenmeadow.ca
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> Duane,
>
> I don't think that there is a right way to do it. I
normally just hit
> reply to all which normally does to: the original
poster and cc's the
> list. In this case it didn't as you have reply to: set
as the mailing
> list.
>
> Rob
And please,
** LOOK ** at the recipients
when you "Reply to all"... A lot of
mor^H^H^Hfolks seem to think that
if they cc the list twice, they'll get twice the response.
There's no
need to post two copies of the same message to the list.
Case in point:
> To: freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org
> Cc: "Daniel A." <ldradagmail.com>, questionsfreebsd.org
> You seem to have something misconfigured. This list
frequently exceeds 100
> posts a day.
Partially because folks such as this poster don't realize
what they're
doing.
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