[General] On E-mail

[Alec Flett]

Priscilla Chung wrote:
> 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. =(
>
I think this is exactly the pattern Ted (and others) are trying to 
avoid.. even without the replies, most of us will end up reading a cross 
posted message once for each mailing list they're subscribed to... which 
means in the case you list above, it shows up three times in my inbox. Oy.

Anyone who does care about design will be reading the design list 
anyway... and in the case of the core teams, I think that applies to 
everyone. If they're on the scooby-dev list but not the design list, 
then the expectation is that they don't care about design issues and may 
just be focused on backend work.

So, +1 to avoiding cross posting as a convenience mechanism

Alec