Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

Hi Miles,

>> Personally, I don't like it too much if people reply to my mailing
>> list articles to both me and the list.  IMHO that's redundant and
>> annoying.  Is that a convention and are there good reasons for such a
>> double-reply?
>
> It is indeed a (very long-standing) convention, with a pretty good
> justification -- when you're not _sure_ the other person reads the
> list, it's better to be safe than sorry.  And you can't be sure, in
> general.

Well, ok.  Sometimes that may be correct.  But most mailing lists allow
posting only by subscribers, so there's no reason to handle the issue
that the original poster doesn't read the list.

Bye,
Tassilo