Mailing list etiquette question

[bconway at alum.wpi.edu (Brian J. Conway)]

It's a trick.  Get an axe.

-b

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> Having just been laid off I started a mailing list for ex (and soon to be 
> ex) members of my development team.  Out of politeness I put my boss on 
> the list, since he too has a termination date in the near future.  The 
> first thing he asked was whether I could send him a list of every name on 
> the list.  Is that typically a fair request of mailing list users?  It
> never really struck me to ask such a thing of other groups, such as 
> this one.  
> 
> Pro argument : The entire audience for the list is finite (maybe 30 
> people), so in theory he alreayd knows everyone that could be on it,
> just not everyone that is actively subscribed.
> 
> Con:  It just seems like an odd request.
> 
> I'm baffled re:how to handle it because as of Monday he was my boss and 
> could make me do such things, but now this is my personal list on my 
> personal server.  Should I say no?
> 
> Duane
> 
> 
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