On 29/01/14 22:47, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2014, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Jan Stolarek:
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 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.
Thunderbird has this, Reply List. I think the problem is that the reply headers sometimes get messed up: I always use Reply List but even then, Thunderbird often either replies to the person in question and CCs the list or the other way around. For this e-mail, I am only sending to the list, using Reply List. I think it adds the person by default if they address mail e-mail and similar thing probably happens for others. I try to remove such occurrences manually but I'm sure it sometimes slips by. I think that as long as you read ghc-devs, it's fine to set up your client to not show you things in your inbox.
Greetings, Joachim
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