Recipient list on FreeBSD mailing lists

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Mar 1 00:54:45 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 03:33 -0500, Parv wrote:
> in message <1141197872.28549.3.camel at neuromancer.home.net>, wrote Ow
> Mun Heng thusly...
> >
> > PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the
> > person answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list
> > only??

>   The guideline is to copy both the OP and the list as not everybody
>   who posts a message is subscribed.

I see. So that's the rules of this mail-list. er.. does this also mean
that everyone can post to this list w/o registering?

> 
> See also point 6 ...
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html#AEN218

Hmm.. didn't see that. (Actually, I didn't read/search for it when I
subscribed to the list)
> 
> I personally would delete an address if the owner of that address
> explicitly requests not to send him/her a copy.

That would be hard to remember.

> Personal judgment about the recipient list & behaviour of mail

Various other mailing lists dictates that posters reply to the list and
not the list _and_ the OP.

Guess this is different.

I still prefer for messages to be sent to the list.

Many Thanks for the explanation.

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Ow Mun Heng
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