Thus said Chris Olson on Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:28:26 CST:
> I believe I'm no more braindead than you are. At least I have the
> common courtesy to not post a derogatory statement like this on the
> list, nor would I even send a private email to anyone containing a
Granted, it is pretty rude to send derogatory statements to the
list---he/she was probably just having a bad day. Maybe a good review
of RFC 1855 would be in order. :-)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1855.txt
> I can assure you that I did not intend to waste yours or anybody else's
> time, nor did I intend to waste list bandwidth.
I for one did not think it was a waste of bandwidth, however, I must
admit I did think it quite a trivial question---but, since you are new
to qmail and linux and possibly the whole *NIX mentality I'm sure you
have a handful. Did you suddenly inherit someone else's job?
> And speaking of wasting bandwidth, why do you (and many others) reply to
> list messages and the reply goes to both the list and to the original
> poster's private email address? Is it so hard to edit the original
Some people actually don't mind receiving two copies---I for one do
not. Some mailing lists tend to be slow and if I am in a hurry I
appreciate the quick delivery of the message that was sent directly to
my mailbox. That is one of the reasons to use filters when
participating on mailing lists. Try setting
mail-followup-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in your mail headers when posting to this list if you don't want a
duplicate copy. A few of the mailers on this list support it and the
"reply-to-all" will usually do the Right Thing(tm). (BTW, I'm risking
getting flamed for mentioning this header...)
Andy
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