Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:07:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: Personalities and progress |
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Tim Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, John Alvord wrote: > > One way to spare Linus a bit is NOT to cc: him automatically, especially > > on contentious issues (regardless of merit). > > Actually, I don't see any reason to either CC or send directly to anyone > involved in a discussion on this list. Why not send *only* to the list? > If you send to both the list and a person, either directly or via CC, > they just end up seeing the message twice. > > I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general, isn't sending only to the > list the best thing to do?
It would be a lot easier to cut down on this problem if vger massaged the post headers to add a reply-to:linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu.
Jon
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