list netiquette

[Derek Martin]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:07:56PM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
> [ reply-to-list vs reply-to-all ]
> 
> http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html
> 
>     summarizes the cost/benefit decently.

It overlooks one important detail:  These days, in most cases, you
must be a subscriber to a list in order to post a message on it.
This tends to exclude the overwhelming majority from participating in
cross-posted threads, except on whichever list where they are already
subscribed.  Actually for this reason and others, cross-posting is 
itself generally considered poor netiquette.  This tends to confound
the argument in favor of reply-all.

I do tend to forget to list-reply due to work habits, but when dealing
with non-work mailing lists, I can't remember the last time I ever
CC'd someone who wasn't subscribed on a list post; I could probably
count the number of times I've posted a message to multiple mailing
lists simultaneously on my fingers.

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