On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:04:37 +1100, grenville armitage said: > Since cross-posters always (!) read each mailing list's charter before sending, > it is intriguing to consider that said posters probably also stumbled across > the list's subscription method. This would presumably move the act of > subscription from the realm of "obscure knowledge" and into the realm > of "duh". Unless of course, it's a cross-poster like me, that has an annoying tendency to hit the 'Reply All' button, not realizing that some of the addresses in the CC: list are mailing lists I'm not on (Hi, Poised subscribers! ;) Let's look at this message as an example: If I hit "reply", it goes only to Grenville. If I hit "reply all", it goes to Grenville, ietf, and poised - and I get to do some hand-trimming if I remember to do so before hitting 'send'. Yes, I *know* about all those "followups-to:" headers, but (a) they're not an actual standards-track last I looked, and (b) there wasn't one in the message I'm replying to anyhow. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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