Reply etiquette

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2014, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Jan Stolarek:
> > PS: I’m subscribed to the list, no need to send a copy to my private address.
>
> This is typically done to alert someone that he/she has been addressed directly in a discussion. I 
> for example have my filters set in such a way that all ghc-devs mails are automatically marked as 
> read unless I am CC'd.

if someone really needs urgent attention from me, putting me in CC is
fine: Mail directed to me will cause popups and land in my Inbox. But
doing so carelessly makes this distinction useless; for example with the
recent pattern synonym thread, I once made a minor comment and got a
dozend mails explicitly sent to me. This is alerting thing is clearly
not working – and I am tempted to the opposite of what you do:
Automatically delete any mail reaching my inbox that also goes to
ghc-dev (and stop whining here).

But before doing that, I’ll try using the Reply-To header, let’s see if
that works better.

BTW, does everyone know about Reply-To-List (sometimes calle Group
Reply, Ctrl-L in evolution) instead of Reply-To-All? But I heard rumors
that Outlook does not support that, and – unlike in the Debian community
– that would be a problem. I guess Reply-To can help then.


Greetings,
Joachim


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