Ted Leung wrote:
1. I've observed a lot of cross posting - the same message going to 2
(or more) mailing lists. If you happen to be subscribed to both
mailing lists, then you end up reading that message twice, or filing
it twice or some combination of both, which makes it hard to keep
things straight. I'm not sure how to address the cross posting
problem other than to ask people to consider whether they really need
to crosspost when they reply. Yes, it means that senders need to
edit To: and Cc: lines, but in mailing list environments such as ours,
we ought to be optimizing for readers, not writers. It may be that
we might need some additional/more tightly focused mailing lists --
I'd be interested to know if people think that would help.
+1 in reducing cross posting. Remember that our lists also do add a list
prefix so when a message is cross posted and answered from a variety of
lists, it ends up with a looong title that becomes unreadable in any
email client width. Example of a real email title received 2 days ago on
Chandler dev:
Re: [Chandler-dev] Re: [Cosmo-dev] Re: [Dev] Re: [Cosmo] Apple
iCal & cosmo-demo
</grin>
2. Sometimes you'll see a one line reply in the middle of a long
quoted message. Please consider trimming the amount of quoted
content when you reply.
+1 Be considerate of the effort you impose on dozen of readers.
Untrimmed messages prevent speed reading by your readers.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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