Reply etiquette

[Carter Schonwald]

Ironically, this is the first ghc-devs email to ever get sent to my bulk
folder. :)

I can't speak for others, but I try to read most of the email in devs and
related lists (for good or for ill). Though this certainly gets in the way
of getting work done sometimes :)

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
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.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
> --
> Joachim “nomeata” Breitner
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