Steven Grimm <koreth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Interesting. I'd actually prefer people *remove* me from the CC list -- > I find it annoying to get two copies of every message in threads I > reply to. I'm already subscribed to the mailing list, so there's no > point having me on the Cc line too. (Mind you, as annoyances go it's a > pretty insignificant one.) > > I can understand the case of people who aren't on the list wanting to > get replies, but why does someone who *is* on the list want to be > CCed? Is it just that there's no good way to tell in advance which > category a given person falls into, so best to be on the safe side? There is no cheap and mechanical way to tell that for the sender, and even when the sender can tell, it is not polite to do so (see next paragraph), unless the recipient specifically ask for it. On the other hand, filtering duplicates at the recipient's end could be mechanically done without wasting the human time. And people's time tend to be a lot more expensive than machine time and the cost to send extra bits over the wire. Some people (including me) prioritize e-mails and respond to messages that are addressed To: them first, then Cc: next, and finally the rest of the messages that came only through the mailng list. Dropping a recipient from the Cc: list, even when the sender knows that recipient is on the list, breaks this. People can safely remove *themselves* from the CC: list when the mailing list they subscribe to are on the CC: list as well. This would interact with the prioritizing I mentioned above, but that is done as a choice by them as the recipient of the replies, so there is no problem in doing so. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html