Re: One copy of an e-mail is enough...

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Garrett has made it clear that when you post to the 
list, you must expect a personal copy AND a general-
distribution copy of each reply. That's a total of two 
copies. You should not receive three or more copies.

It's only common courtesy to reply personally to the 
sender of the original message. Unless you have 
something private to say to him or her, you should cc 
the list server, which then sends the original sender a 
second copy of your reply. You may find the second copy 
bothersome; that's unfortunate, but it takes only a 
couple of seconds to delete it.

Those who subscribe to the digest version of the list 
often receive the personal response as much as 24 hours 
before they receive the digest issue that contains the 
list copy. Since we do not, in general, know which form 
of the list any list member receives, and since a reply 
can precipitate additional postings, it really is 
discourteous to fail to send a personal reply when 
posting a reply to the list.

In the words of Walter Cronkite, "And that's the way it 
is."

> I thought this was a remailer, not a private carbon-copy service.  I don't know 
> about the rest of you, but I definitely do not need three or more copies of the 
> same e-mail every time I choose to participate.  Can we please bring this under 
> control, and have everyone post to the remailer only?