On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Stan Ryckman <stanr(_at_)sunspot(_dot_)tiac(_dot_)net>
wrote:
Trevor Jenkins writes:
Much like total strangers sending vcard attachments I consider cc:ing list
replies poor 'netiquete at best and total arrogance at worst. If I were so
inclined I'd have a procmail recipe that auto-/dev/null's all such cc:ed
copies.
Total arrogance? Sending you a Cc doesn't fit any definition of
the word that I know. On the other hand, your remark itself does.
It's especially arrogant when it's the person asking for help
complaining about an extra copy.
Yeah absolutely but unlike some (many) on this list I'm located in a
country in which all phone calls (including the local one to my ISP) are
not free---in the cash sense. So I pay twice for the same message.
So, if you really care, then I suggest you get off your high horse
and put "Reply-To:" in your *outgoing* mail; this list will pass it
through, and then you will get fewer Cc's and will have a better case
for complaining about the remaining ones you might get.
You miss the point. Whilst that may work for this particular list there
are some really brain dead list servers out there where anything (and
everything) can be and is mung there. One of the worst being the
listserver run by AOL. A medical list there (for ME which I happen to
suffer) has personal preferences set for the sender. In the confused state
an ME sufferer gets into this means that some replies go to the list, some
to the originator and some to the moderators---depending upon what the
original poster set in their profile. Unless you are careful and thnking
straight, the latter being something that the average ME sufferer can't
do, your emails can go anywhere but the place one intends them. When these
already confused people have reply to set back to themselves by default by
a dumb mailer then chaos reigns.
I *think* pine lets you do that. I am doing it on this post with elm.
But procmail doesn't. It being a delivery agent.
Regards, Trevor
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