On 4/8/11 11:21 AM, Carmel wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:41 +0100
Arthur Chance<free...@qeng-ho.org> articulated:
On 04/07/11 15:32, Carmel wrote:
Odhiambo, please don't CC me. I don't need multiple copies of the
same post.
CCing the original poster is standard etiquette on FreeBSD mailing
lists. Most lists are open to anybody to mail to without being signed
up, so when replying there's no way of knowing whether or not the
questioner will see a reply that only goes to the list. This is
especially true of freebsd-questions.
1) I have posted several times on this list and only received CC's on
two of them that I can recall. Obviously your standard is not so
standard.
That's the nice thing about standards, there are so many of them to
choose from.
2) I placed a very clear notice at the bottom of my post(s). Many
people would consider that a clue as to my desire to receive multiple
copies of the same document.
Expecting people to actually read and react to your disclaimer....now
that's *not* standard, given the wild proliferation of meaningless
disclaimers necessitated by current thinking on various liability matters.
3) Perhaps it is only me; however, most of the major lists that I
employ all require a registration by the poster prior to being allowed
to post.
Try to be friendly and helpful to non-subscribers...much too old school
for a modern dude like you, it appears.
4) I have seen several posts where the OP requested to be CC'd because
they were not registered members of the list. Obviously, they were
aware of the necessity of being CC'd or reading the archives in order
to review any posts to their request. Now, is someone is just so plain
stupid that they are not aware of that simple fact, then they are too
stupid to be posting to begin with.
You're conflating ignorance and stupidity. Not really the same thing.
Shall we have a rousing discussion as to whether this is ignorant or
stupid of you?
Feh!
5) If you noticed, I asked Odhiambo very nicely not to include me in a
CC. I am sure he meant well; however, the inevitable destruction of
electrons in the transmission of the superfluous document could have
been avoided.
If you'd just shaken your head and gone away quietly, instead of making
your numbered list and sharing with us all, a lot more electrons would
have gone on to have happy, productive lives doing something useful.
But, no, you had to move up the heat death of the universe by 3 seconds.
--
--Jon Radel
j...@radel.com
