[General] On E-mail

[Mimi Yin]

Just to clarify:

We decided to post to the Design list with the [Scooby] and [Cosmo]  
tags so that we could centralize all design discussions on the design  
list while providing the people who were mostly interested in Scooby  
and Cosmo a quick way to find relevant emails.

As a result, anything having to do with design should only go to the  
design list.

Mimi :o)

On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Alec Flett wrote:

> 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
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