[General] On E-mail

[Philippe Bossut]

Ted Leung wrote:
> 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.
+1 in reducing cross posting. Remember that our lists also do add a list 
prefix so when a message is cross posted and answered from a variety of 
lists, it ends up with a looong title that becomes unreadable in any 
email client width. Example of a real email title received 2 days ago on 
Chandler dev:
    Re: [Chandler-dev] Re: [Cosmo-dev] Re: [Dev] Re: [Cosmo] Apple 
iCal    &    cosmo-demo

</grin>
> 2.  Sometimes you'll see a one line reply in the middle of a long 
> quoted message.   Please consider trimming the amount of quoted 
> content when you reply.
+1 Be considerate of the effort you impose on dozen of readers. 
Untrimmed messages prevent speed reading by your readers.

Cheers,
- Philippe