[General] On E-mail

[Priscilla Chung]

Ted Leung wrote:
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> 1.  I've observed a lot of cross posting - the same message going to 2 
> (or more) mailing lists.   If you happen to be subscribed to both 
> mailing lists, then you end up reading that message twice, or filing 
> it twice or some combination of both, which makes it hard to keep 
> things straight.   I'm not sure how to address the cross posting 
> problem other than to ask people to consider whether they really need 
> to crosspost when they reply.   Yes, it means that senders need to 
> edit To: and Cc: lines, but in mailing list environments such as ours, 
> we ought to be optimizing for readers, not writers.   It may be that 
> we might need some additional/more tightly focused mailing lists -- 
> I'd be interested to know if people think that would help.
If the e-mail I send is about a design issues but relates to Scooby & 
Cosmo, I usually send To: design-list, Cc: scooby-dev & cosmo-dev, then 
in the e-mail I would asked people to "Please respond to the design list 
only!" at the top/bottom. That way if you just hit 'Reply' opposed to 
'Reply all', it will automatically send to the design list. It's worked 
on the most part...not a perfect system 'cause the down side, if some 
people do "Reply-all', then you have two threads going. =(

If people can do a "highlight" (in bullet points) of what they're 
saying, that would be helpful. Especially if they end up writing their 
mini-biographies in D/F Chanlder/Scooby/Cosmo...etc. Or if there is a 
"bottom line", a sort of 'what's your point' in writing this email?

-Priscilla