From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3971 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll] Date: 14 Nov 1995 18:58:35 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: <199511141300.OAA20138@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144785 28126 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk, joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from biggulp.callamer.com (biggulp.callamer.com [199.74.141.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA19403 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:47:16 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by biggulp.callamer.com (8.6.12/8.6.9-callamer-rdw080995) with ESMTP id UAA28354 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:01:29 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 03:58:44 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA19038; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:58:37 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 14 Nov 1995 05:00:49 -0800 Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.12 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3971 >>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen writes: >>>>> "Sudish" == Sudish Joseph 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 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