I notice that whenever someone cross-posts a message to both python-dev and python-3000, I get two copies of every reply to the thread, which makes the thread somewhat hard to read. Perhaps most people on this list have smarter mail readers than I do (Thunderbird in my case) which can merge the duplicate messages, but if you find this as much of an annoyance as I do, then I have a couple of small suggestions:
1) If your message is important enough to post to multiple mailing lists, then it might make sense to post a separate message to each list; That way, when someone replies to the message, they will only be replying to one list, not all of them. (Another option might be to just BCC the lists. I'm sure that there are other options as well.) 2) If you are responding to a cross-posted message, I'd suggest taking the time to edit the "To:" field so that you're only replying to the lists you really want to. Of course, if you really do want to start one single thread in both lists, I have no objection - but I suspect that most of the time this isn't the intent, and is just generating unnecessary traffic. The good news is that it only takes one person being careful with their reply headers to cut out whole sub-trees of duplicate traffic, and thereby save python.org some valuable bandwidth :) -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
