Re: No need for CC, please

[Marco Gerards]

Pierre THIERRY <address@hidden> writes:

> Scribit Marco Gerards dies 02/05/2006 hora 09:46:
>> > To all members of the list: please reply to the list. In the
>> > previous two weeks, I received a personal copy of exactly hundred
>> > emails.
>> This is the normal way of posting on any mailinglist.
>
> Don't generalize too fast. This is definitely not the normal way of
> posting on most mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and also considered an
> annoyance on most of them.
>
> Which has lead me to perceive it as such.

On any list I am on this is the normal thing to do.

> It can be the rule here, which I shall respect if it is and stop
> complaining, but this definitely not is a rule everywhere.
>
>> Fix your mailclient instead of telling everyone how to work.
>
> My mail client has not to be fixed. It obeys all the standards headers
> defined for the electronic mail by the IETF, in the STD and RFC tracks.
>
> Additionaly, my mail client is not involved in distributing incoming
> mail. When I receive mail twice, one I'm the direct recipient without
> anything inbetween and one being transmitted by a mailing list, it would
> be a bug in my MTA not to deliver the first in my personal incoming mail
> box and the second in my hurd-l4 incoming mail box.
>
> As for the other mail on this very subject, just prove me wrong if you
> think I am, I will sincerely listen to your arguments if they are
> consistent.
>
> So far, no sound technical mean was proposed to me to prevent the
> annoyance of receiving mails twice, so I tried a social mean.

Some mailclients can be configured to remove/hide duplicates.

--
Marco