From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUhLw-0004xh-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:36:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D629E0BCF; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D1E5E0BCF for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb19 with SMTP id 19so1830076gwb.40 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:35:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=LCXNjiAlF0nQ4XaHJ3FYVueU9xzaxTQ0Zv14tiiMsRI=; b=f2NIkpjzVzVTMzTABxpqF7Yzmr4WdVMUaznEzjh9jAVxjF45sewjGmeTA/hwRzuyw2 36mtUwSgAmpjAOFqYCFcgnhxYHM9UQPujA21L0gl+HKJfY9Chq3HcTh393q8hRTmiLRt NmmYZPcV9OZNLFn2lhC3eq0Hmh5cm8yL2Ol+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=menDI+0HN+4C19hCxJbYd7hqlqyJmJ7EiNOdAECS/O9XSDnQUKb6O+0gUXSgDEwiZE +uBSIUDdX+ogrggiYZ1NvU3zDDKhFtv69vj6+s4P9I7l/1mpOhqSHiXPpM7kN5xdZ6jx so9ZBkhS5zddDiiMA6yiKdeCLf2o8OS+2cfNU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.223.194 with SMTP id il2mr533796qcb.281.1278081339803; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.232.72 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:35:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100702091438.44274c98@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20100702005433.GK9344@vidovic> <20100702091438.44274c98@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:35:39 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016363b8ea040d2b0048a688079 X-Archives-Salt: b4999443-92aa-4383-af19-307dd2e4f048 X-Archives-Hash: be4623dccf6f183812ffbbbe9e2cb389 --0016363b8ea040d2b0048a688079 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bothwick 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. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --0016363b8ea040d2b0048a688079 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bot= hwick <neil@digi= med.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 a= s it permit
> to be notified of an answer without having to track the whole mailing<= br> > list.

If I post to the list, I expect a reply via the list. Getting two rep= lies
is annoying, especially if I don't realise the private one is a duplica= te
and reply to it before checking the list. One of the main points of a list<= br> is that it is a public discussion, archived for all to see, fragmenting
conversations into private mail defeats that point.=
=A0
Precisely, except that I'm n= ot 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.=A0 This hasn't changed much, if a= t
all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985.
<= br>--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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