Ironically, this is the first ghc-devs email to ever get sent to my bulk
folder. :)
I can't speak for others, but I try to read most of the email in devs and
related lists (for good or for ill). Though this certainly gets in the way
of getting work done sometimes :)
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Joachim Breitner
Hi,
PS: I’m subscribed to the list, no need to send a copy to my private address.
This is typically done to alert someone that he/she has been addressed
Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2014, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Jan Stolarek: directly in a discussion. I
for example have my filters set in such a way that all ghc-devs mails are automatically marked as read unless I am CC'd.
if someone really needs urgent attention from me, putting me in CC is fine: Mail directed to me will cause popups and land in my Inbox. But doing so carelessly makes this distinction useless; for example with the recent pattern synonym thread, I once made a minor comment and got a dozend mails explicitly sent to me. This is alerting thing is clearly not working – and I am tempted to the opposite of what you do: Automatically delete any mail reaching my inbox that also goes to ghc-dev (and stop whining here).
But before doing that, I’ll try using the Reply-To header, let’s see if that works better.
BTW, does everyone know about Reply-To-List (sometimes calle Group Reply, Ctrl-L in evolution) instead of Reply-To-All? But I heard rumors that Outlook does not support that, and – unlike in the Debian community – that would be a problem. I guess Reply-To can help then.
Greetings, Joachim
-- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0x4743206C Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org