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Re: reply etiquette

2004-09-29 07:31:57

Which is exactly the opposite of what some other people consider to be common courtesy. Many people feel that common courtesy dictates that you SHOULD trim down the To/Cc recipients to just the list name.

here's the difference:

The courtesy I'm referring to is ensuring that the author of a message gets a copy of the reply, and ensuring that other participants in the discussion are aware that the author was sent a copy of the reply. The only way to do this reliably is to explicitly specify the author of the subject message as one of the reply recipients.

The courtesy other people see as common is in ridding a recipient of the need to see multiple copies of a message. That's a valid concern, but it is presumptuous to assume that a recipient is on the list, and that the recipient reads the list traffic in the same way that he reads other traffic.

Keith


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