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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:57:07 -0400 |
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> How does one send email to *THIS* list, without being subscribed in |
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> the first place? |
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You can do that on sites like GMANE; similarly, given a message ID, |
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you can request that specific from the mailing list daemon to land in |
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your inbox, which allows you even do a signed reply to it. |
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As you can see; there are people that want to participate only when |
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they are interested in it, rather than flood their mailing program. |
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Let's say you have a bug when you unmount a filesystem; so, you go look |
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on the LKML if there's something known about it. You'll find: |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1671264 |
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The thing is; you're not subscribed as you found it, yet you want to |
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reply to it without subscribing to its flood, what do? You send off a |
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single reply; then you expect someone that responds to CC you if that |
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person wants to tell / ask you something, otherwise you wouldn't know. |
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> But I'm not aware of any such mechanism on this list. If someone is |
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> involved in a thread here, then they've obviously subscribed here. |
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> So the CC: is redundant. |
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Invisible things are hard to be aware of; you assume that the person is |
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CC-ed, however, the person may have found the thread through GMANE _or_ |
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the person might have been unsubscribed by the moment you make a reply. |
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We see similar things happen on IRC; someone asks a question, 2 or 3 |
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minutes later they are gone. Sometimes they ask a question, but receive |
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no answer so they are gone 20 or 30 minutes later. Similarly; we're now |
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a month later in this ML thread, who says people are still subscribed? |
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On IRC, if you pay notice to the many join/part/quits and don't filter |
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them, you can still spot that with awareness; however, on ML you can't. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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