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Mailing list etiquette question



On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:56:24PM -0500, 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.  

That's an odd request. You might invite him to send out a "who's here?"
query on the list, but to just turn over the user list violates the
privacy of anyone on the list who hasn't consented to it.

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net




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