On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:11:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Personally, I'm fine with giving up on the no-cc policy. Just about > every other technical mailing list that I read tends to accumulate cc's > until someone gets around to removing them, and mostly people just deal > with a bit of grumbling. I think it's fine to encourage people to trim > useless cc's when they know the person to whom they're replying is on > the list, but in terms of the available options and what we can make > people's clients do by default, I think getting an extra copy of mail > occasionally is the least bad outcome. Currently, I think we go through > too much emotional effort towards getting people to get rid of the cc's, > with neither a lot of productive outcome nor a lot of potential for > long-term improvement. I bet we could do as well on elimination of cc's > with a request (rather than a policy) and some pointers to configuration > for common MUAs.
+1 -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
