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Mailing list netiquette #email

๐Ÿ•“๏ธŽ - 2012-10-14

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.

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 ๐Ÿ•Ÿ๏ธŽ - 2012-10-14

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Still annoying when people do it on "non-open" lists, I think...

- Adam ๐Ÿ•–๏ธŽ - 2012-10-14

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