On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/08/14 14:02, jan i wrote: >> hi. >> >> Have you also noticed that the amount of AOO mails have exploded >> lately....sounds good you think lots of activity >> >> SADLY the truth is different, we have a fair amoun of real mails, but >> something like 8 of 10 are sent to multiple ML. >> >> It is unwise to send the same mail to multiple lists, for a couple of >> reasons: >> - the discussion becomes scattered over multiple ML >> - you force your fellow community members to read the same mail several >> times >> - you waste our bandwith >> >> If most mails are copied to most ML....then why do we have so many ML, one >> solution could be to only have dev@ and let the others be an alias >> (absolutely not one I prefer). >> >> How can we stop this tendency to blow up our inboxes ? > > We don't do that normally but for example my mails regarding the > availability of the RC builds are important for at least 3 lists. And I > know that not all people are subscribed or reading dev. But I know that > people read (are subscribed) to QA and l10n. So how can I reach all > interested parties? For me it's simple I send an email to all lists. The > people who are subscribed to all lists potentially found this annoying > but for me it is more important to reach all. > > If you have a good idea how to solve this, I am interested to learn. >
Sometimes I will send to one list and cc the others (bcc will look spammy to some tools), and then put in the first line of the body: "Responses to Foo list only". Regards, -Rob > > Juergen > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
