Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:04:37 +1100, grenville armitage said:
> Since cross-posters always (!) read each mailing list's charter before 
> sending,
> it is intriguing to consider that said posters probably also stumbled across
> the list's subscription method. This would presumably move the act of
> subscription from the realm of "obscure knowledge" and into the realm
> of "duh".
Unless of course, it's a cross-poster like me, that has an annoying tendency
to hit the 'Reply All' button,  not realizing that some of the addresses
in the CC: list are mailing lists I'm not on (Hi, Poised subscribers! ;)

Let's look at this message as an example:  If I hit "reply", it goes
only to Grenville.  If I hit "reply all", it goes to Grenville, ietf,
and poised - and I get to do some hand-trimming if I remember to do so before
hitting 'send'.  Yes, I *know* about all those "followups-to:" headers,
but (a) they're not an actual standards-track last I looked, and (b) there
wasn't one in the message I'm replying to anyhow.
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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