From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67301 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:52:44 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <87fxoyifjg.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219985658 6894 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 04:54:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:54:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15752@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 29 06:55:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYw0q-0008Ro-Pj for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KYvyo-0007CR-KC; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KYvym-0007CB-QF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KYvyk-0005Ya-D5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KYvyl-00058r-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:52:59 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KYvye-0005K2-TN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:52:52 +0000 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:52:52 +0000 Original-Received: from miles.bader by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:52:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fencepost.gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Cancel-Lock: sha1:jTi0TARbgPNu9/liwMeThewA3P4= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67301 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > 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. -Miles -- /\ /\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute kitty virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.