the guy is too picky, if somene asks for help they should take it in any form it comes in, getting 1 or 2 extra mails is not a big deal, sometimes i get 20 mails about 1 thing, takes just an extra minute of time to filter and delete the duplicates.
if i replied to a message like that I would go out of my way to CC: because those CAPS are more annoying then any cc:. my 0.01 nate On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Kenneth Stephen wrote: pgmr >On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: pgmr > pgmr >> Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: pgmr >> > * DO NOT BOTHER CC-ING THE MAIL REPLY , BECAUSE I AM ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO pgmr >> > ALL THE LISTS - ILUGC , LINUX-INDIA , LINUX-NEWBIE , DEBIAN-USER * pgmr >> pgmr >> Might I suggest having them set reply-tos like all proper lists so people pgmr >> don't have to munge headers to get to the right list or get bounces from lists pgmr >> they are not subscribed to? pgmr >> pgmr >Steve, pgmr > pgmr > I think that this is a bad suggestion since there are some people pgmr >(such as me) who use the Reply-To headers to ensure that the recipients pgmr >have a valid reply address to reply to us. If the mailing list rewrites pgmr >the Reply-To by putting itself in that header, then the valid reply pgmr >address is lost. pgmr > pgmr > Furthermore, I think that the original problem of getting two pgmr >copies of the same mail can be solved easily by using procmail. pgmr > pgmr >Regards, pgmr >Kenneth pgmr > pgmr > pgmr >-- pgmr >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null pgmr > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:11am up 112 days, 18:56, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 1.66, 1.70
