On 27/10/06 19:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-10-27 at 18:28 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Whether or not it's a bad habit depends on who is receiving the mail -- some people will scream until they turn blue if they receive a cc of an email sent to the list. I do not know if they yell at Andreas when he replies to one of their messages -- I think it would not be in good form to yell at a SuSE guy on *this* list :-)
X''-))
Actually, it is quite simple to automatically move those CC messages to a diferent folder automatically.
For instance, I receive mail from this list in one folder, CCed mails in another, and direct only emails in a third folder. I'm not bothered at all by thosed copies, I could even erase them automatically if I wanted.
Procmail is so nice... ;-)
I'm using mozilla, and it works. Actually, one of the rants about cc's and offlist replies did contain something useful to me -- the "list-post" header. As soon as I learned about that, my mail filters suddenly became trivial, and all of them now work all the time (previously, a tiny logic error anywhere would result in the occasional misdirected message). All mail cc'd or direct to me stays in the inbox, where I can read it or not, and any mail for any list goes to its proper place. So it is not that all the ranting about cc's of list mail contain nothing of value, just that the signal-to-noise ratio qualifies quite nicely as one of those differential values one learned about in calculus, eg. lim (dx --> 0) < something> :-)