On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 15:12 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > What I think is rude and unacceptable are the people who write a > message to a list where *they* are asking for help and they say "don't > forget to CC: me in any replies because I don't want to read the > list". If you are asking for help, at least be polite enough to meet > people half way. It is often the same people who ask FAQs.
We're getting a bit OT here, but I agree with Pete on this. My take on it as follows: David has said several times that it's rude not to reply directly (via CC) to posts on mailing lists. I have to say this is the first time I've seen this position advocated. Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but I don't recall it being mentioned in any of the usual guides to netiquette and couldn't find any mention of it on the first page of results returned by a Google search ("netiquette mailing lists"). Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but that in itself would indicate that it's not a common opinion. People who ask questions on mailing lists are not writing to me, they are writing to a group of people represented by the list membership. Think of it as asking a question in a town-hall meeting. Given that they aren't writing to me, why should I assume I need to reply explicitly to them (unless they request it) as well as giving a public response? Rudeness doesn't enter into it. A public forum is not the same as a private communication. Now back to our regularly-scheduled program. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list