From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:35:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikWs8P7FL9NzYSG1_RiVRgLGSjPEJWsPPMrx4BB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100702091438.44274c98@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:54:33 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>
> > It is usually better and prefer the "answer to all" policy as it permit
> > to be notified of an answer without having to track the whole mailing
> > list.
>
> If I post to the list, I expect a reply via the list. Getting two replies
> is annoying, especially if I don't realise the private one is a duplicate
> and reply to it before checking the list. One of the main points of a list
> is that it is a public discussion, archived for all to see, fragmenting
> conversations into private mail defeats that point.
>
Precisely, except that I'm not as annoyed as some of you seem to be.
Part of the way a mailing list works is that there is always discontent
about the way the mailing list works. This hasn't changed much, if at
all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985.
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-02 0:54 [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-02 1:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-07-02 3:30 ` Dale
2010-07-02 10:01 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-07-02 10:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-02 10:38 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-07-02 10:46 ` Dale
2010-07-02 11:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-02 14:19 ` Grant Edwards
2010-07-02 21:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-03 3:09 ` Grant Edwards
2010-07-02 7:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-07-02 8:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-02 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-02 9:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-02 14:35 ` Kevin O'Gorman [this message]
2010-07-02 16:30 ` Paul Hartman
2010-07-02 11:47 ` Willie Wong
2010-07-02 14:00 ` Tanstaafl
2010-07-03 10:55 ` Mick
2010-07-03 16:37 ` Mick
2010-07-03 17:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-03 17:44 ` Mick
2010-07-03 19:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-04 3:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-07-04 11:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-04 9:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2010-07-06 10:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-07-06 11:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-06 19:15 ` Christopher Swift
2010-07-10 13:25 ` luis jure
2010-07-03 19:42 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-07-04 9:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-04 20:19 ` Tanstaafl
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