Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly rude when people send you direct copies of their replies on mailing lists?
Why would anyone do that? I am on the freaking mailing list, for crying out loud!
Phew. Ok, thanks for listening.
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Because it's common practice for open mailing lists, where a lot of senders aren't necessarily subscribed to the list, but would still like direct responses to their mails. lkml comes to mind as an example of this.
- Anders Ossowicki 🕠︎ - 2012-10-14
Still annoying when people do it on "non-open" lists, I think...
- Adam 🕗︎ - 2012-10-14