Ironically, this is the first ghc-devs email to ever get sent to my bulk folder. :)
I can't speak for others, but I try to read most of the email in devs and related lists (for good or for ill). Though this certainly gets in the way of getting work done sometimes :) On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2014, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Jan Stolarek: > > > PS: I’m subscribed to the list, no need to send a copy to my private > address. > > > > This is typically done to alert someone that he/she has been addressed > directly in a discussion. I > > for example have my filters set in such a way that all ghc-devs mails > are automatically marked as > > read unless I am CC'd. > > if someone really needs urgent attention from me, putting me in CC is > fine: Mail directed to me will cause popups and land in my Inbox. But > doing so carelessly makes this distinction useless; for example with the > recent pattern synonym thread, I once made a minor comment and got a > dozend mails explicitly sent to me. This is alerting thing is clearly > not working – and I am tempted to the opposite of what you do: > Automatically delete any mail reaching my inbox that also goes to > ghc-dev (and stop whining here). > > But before doing that, I’ll try using the Reply-To header, let’s see if > that works better. > > BTW, does everyone know about Reply-To-List (sometimes calle Group > Reply, Ctrl-L in evolution) instead of Reply-To-All? But I heard rumors > that Outlook does not support that, and – unlike in the Debian community > – that would be a problem. I guess Reply-To can help then. > > > Greetings, > Joachim > > > -- > Joachim “nomeata” Breitner > [email protected] • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ > Jabber: [email protected] • GPG-Key: 0x4743206C > Debian Developer: [email protected] >
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