Christoph Hellwig put forth on 8/17/2010 4:01 AM: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:32:02AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: >> On Montag, 16. August 2010 Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Why does "everyone" on this list "reply-to-all" when 99% of the time >>> it is totally unnecessary, redundant, and potentially ruffles a >>> sender's feathers, as in this case? >> >> I'm also on several lists, but the only list where reply-to-all is used >> is this one - so I followed the way it's done here without having >> questioned why. > > It's done by all Lists in the Linux development universe, and it's the > only sane way to handle a list. We don't require people to subsribe to > post to the list, and keeping everyone in the To/Cc list means it > arrives at those people as well. In addition it allows subscribes that > are on tons of lists to prioritize discussions they're actually involved > in personally by getting a copy in the inbox that can be replied to ASAP > while also having an archived copy in the list folder. Every other way > to run a list is simply insane. Thanks Christoph. That makes sense. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
