Fwd: Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning

leeolives...@surewest.net

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Mar 17, 2013, 6:37:44 PM3/17/13

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Ralf Mardorf

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Mar 18, 2013, 4:15:43 AM3/18/13

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On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeolives...@surewest.net wrote:
> Please Cc responses to the mailing list

I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays
provide an option to automatically reply to the list only. So IMO even
for this list the advice should at least be, "_if possible_ reply to the
list only", if you want receive a copy directly, than ask the OP "reply
to the list and (carbon copy) me, but don't address it to somebody
else".

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Ralf

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Warren Block

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Mar 18, 2013, 11:00:31 AM3/18/13

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeolives...@surewest.net wrote:
>> Please Cc responses to the mailing list

Actually, I had written that in a reply.

> I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
> lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays
> provide an option to automatically reply to the list only. So IMO even
> for this list the advice should at least be, "_if possible_ reply to the
> list only", if you want receive a copy directly, than ask the OP "reply
> to the list and (carbon copy) me, but don't address it to somebody
> else".

Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
because people are not required to subscribe to post.

Ralf Mardorf

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Mar 18, 2013, 11:29:09 AM3/18/13

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On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
> because people are not required to subscribe to post.

That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the
list, while my broken MUA didn't use the address, I used to subscribe to
this list. So a smarter MUA should provide different reply settings for
replying to different lists. I should take a look at the mailman
settings, since at the moment I receive 2 mails in case of Cc'ing, IIRC
this can be disabled.

Jerry McAllister

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Mar 18, 2013, 7:34:10 PM3/18/13

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeolives...@surewest.net wrote:
> > Please Cc responses to the mailing list
>
> I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
> lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays
> provide an option to automatically reply to the list only.

As a matter of fact, on the FreeBSD Questions list it is recommended
to send to both the poster and the list. On this list it is not
required to be subscribed to post. It is an open list.

////jerry

Warren Block

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Mar 19, 2013, 4:02:55 PM3/19/13

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
>> because people are not required to subscribe to post.
>
> That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the
> list, while my broken MUA didn't use the address, I used to subscribe to
> this list. So a smarter MUA should provide different reply settings for
> replying to different lists. I should take a look at the mailman
> settings, since at the moment I receive 2 mails in case of Cc'ing, IIRC
> this can be disabled.

Mailing list settings may not help, since it's really up to the sender.
But it's easy to filter out duplicates with maildrop or procmail.