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From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)
Cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk, joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll]
Date: 14 Nov 1995 18:58:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hh0637ok.fsf@diana.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 14 Nov 1995 05:00:49 -0800

>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>>>> "Sudish" == Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

    Sudish> For lots of mailing lists, it is common that the person
    Sudish> who originated the thread is not a member of the list.

I got a personal example of the good intent of this yesterday evening,
when a question I asked in a *-user list got responded to in the
corresponding *-worker list.  Point taken, even though I subscribe to
the *-worker list.

>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

    SLB> I thought this was considered bad etiquette in general.  But
    SLB> if that has changed, that's O.K.

    Per> It hasn't changed.  Good etiquette has always mandated that
    Per> you followed the policies for a particular mailing list, and
    Per> that the policies were determined by the list owner.

That seems to me to cry out for something to set out of the group
parameters, and/or in the active file.

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur


  reply	other threads:[~1995-11-15  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-14  0:56 Steven L. Baur
1995-11-14  4:43 ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-14  7:20   ` Steven L. Baur
1995-11-14  8:17     ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-14 13:00     ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-15  2:58       ` Steven L. Baur [this message]
1995-11-15  3:41         ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-18  6:49           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-18  8:14             ` Steven L. Baur
1995-11-19  7:43               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-18 16:40             ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-19  7:43               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-22  0:27                 ` Felix Lee
1995-11-23 12:36                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-23 22:55                     ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-26 14:22                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-14 15:53   ` Sten Drescher
1995-11-15  4:08     ` Sudish Joseph
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-11-13 22:51 Sudish Joseph
1995-11-13 23:49 ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-14  0:07   ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-14  1:17     ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-14  4:55       ` Sudish Joseph
1995-11-14 12:40         ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-15  3:53           ` Sudish Joseph

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