How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

[Loren M. Lang]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 6.  Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender
>     and to FreeBSD-questions.  Many people on the FreeBSD-questions
>     are "lurkers": they learn by reading messages sent and replied to
>     by others.  If you take a message which is of general interest off
>     the list, you're depriving these people of their information.  Be
>     careful with group replies; lots of people send messages with
>     hundreds of CCs.  If this is the case, be sure to trim the Cc:
>     lines appropriately.
> 

Hmmm...  seems like I remember this as a big no-no on some other list,
as it stated that most people who submitted messages were probably also
subscribed, and it was an irritation to them to see duplicates to all
the replies.  I know I am slightly annoyed when I see that, but only
slightly.  It finished saying that anyone who wanted a personal reply to
state so, but if they didn't, I'd hate not knowing if they received my
reply just because I assumed they were subscribed.

I guess I'll just have to adjust...

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