Bad habits

[Stuart Halliday]

If they're not on the list why assume they want to be emailed?

Why are non members even allowed to post to the list?

Isn't an open mailing list a blank cheque to email harvesters?

P.S.
Please don't CC a reply back to me. I'll read it on the list. ;-)

-- 
Stuart Halliday



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Cc: Stuart Halliday <StuartH at ecs-tech.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:32:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Bad habits

> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Stuart Halliday wrote:
> > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Stuart Halliday wrote:
> > > > Is it just me or a lot of people on this mailing list got into a
> bad
> > > > habit of also carbon copying to the poster as well?
> > >
> > > sounds normal to me
> >
> > Hardly.
> >
> > Mailing lists send one email of new posts to each member under normal
> > conditions. They don't send two!
> 
> read the rest of the thread.  you cant assume everyone is on the
> mailing list.
> -mike
> 


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