list netiquette

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:16:00PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > I don't think that's actually fair to say, though.  The number escapes
> > me at the moment, but there's an RFC that defines a number of  headers
> > for mailing lists.  AFAIK all of the mentioned mail clients honor
> > those, i.e. they all conform to the standard.  Some have additional
> > means to decide whether something is or is not a mailing list...
> 
> That didn't exist when I last bothered to care.  

Here:

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html

You haven't cared for a very long time... ;-)

Actually while the RFC has existed for a long while, naturally
widespread support for it didn't.  Mutt, AFAIK, was the early first
adopter, having such features in its very first version, I believe,
with Evolution to follow a short while after.  Others picked it up
later, mostly much later IIRC... 

> I've long-since grown accustomed to using Reply All and editing my
> headers appropriately.  It's a good habit.  It avoids unexpected
> unintentions.

I largely disagree.  It's extra time/tedium that I don't need, given
that I typically send dozens of e-mails a day, and given that my
mailer does exactly the right thing with a single key press (until
someone decides to start header munging, but that's almost always
problematical)...  But ultimately whatever works the way your brain
works is probably the Right Thing.

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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