Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!news.servidellagleba.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: OT: To CC or not to CC? Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:10:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Dec 4 23:08:45 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.044 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.345] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -5.85 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Lines: 38 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AF6nc2AFMqHRIgC6dfwGXEVPg/E= X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13258 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85oae57qxl.fsf@benfinney.id.au Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:08:22 +1100 X-Original-Message-ID: <85oae57qxl.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Original-References: <20140406172817.GE6458@p1otr.com> <87fv12huwh.fsf@grothesque.org> <87bnbqhuag.fsf_-_@grothesque.org> <20151023084031.GJ15907@sar0.p1otr.com> <874mfxvn7p.fsf_-_@grothesque.org> X-Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:7942 Christoph Groth writes: > Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > > your message went through, I simply decide to ignore you for a while > > because you CCed me on a mailing list that I subscribe :P > > But how can I know that you, or someone else, is subscribed? When a message is sent to a forum (e.g. a mailing list), there's no need to know whether the person who sent it is subscribed. That's their business, and if they want to receive replies they should either subscribe to the forum or arrange some other way to receive replies from that forum. > I believe that instead of asking oneself this question each time when > replying to some message on some mailing list, CCing the author by > default is the only reasonable policy. I disagree, it is more reasonable to think that someone sending a message to a forum can arrange by themselves to receive message from that forum — and if they do not say otherwise, they do not want public replies duplicated to them privately. > People who are annoyed by receiving the same message twice can quite > easily configure any good MUA to hide messages that also go to lists > that they read anyway. Some of us have not informed our MUA about the forum at all because we don't subscribe to the forum via email. If we haven't asked explicitly for public replies to be duplicated to our individual email address, it would be rude to unilaterally send messages there without good reason. -- \ “Science embraces facts and debates opinion; religion embraces | `\ opinion and debates the facts.” —Tom Heehler, _The Well-Spoken | _o__) Thesaurus_ | Ben Finney