Reply etiquette

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 29/01/14 22:47, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 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.

Thunderbird has this, Reply List. I think the problem is that the reply
headers sometimes get messed up: I always use Reply List but even then,
Thunderbird often either replies to the person in question and CCs the
list or the other way around. For this e-mail, I am only sending to the
list, using Reply List. I think it adds the person by default if they
address mail e-mail and similar thing probably happens for others. I try
to remove such occurrences manually but I'm sure it sometimes slips by.

I think that as long as you read ghc-devs, it's fine to set up your
client to not show you things in your inbox.

> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
> 
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Mateusz K.