From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to determine if to reply by CC as well
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwb1fom7.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7199.1408384010.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>> Yes, but is he on the list or not? If he is, he
>> doesn't need a CC. If he isn't, he might be unaware
>> there were people trying to help him.
>
> Yes. That is exactly the problem. And one without a
> solution from looking at one email message. Sometimes
> you can tell by looking over several messages. For
> example if the poster has previously responded to a
> message that went only to the mailing list then you
> can safely assume that they are reading the mail list
> messages. Or if they have set a Mail-Followup-To:
> header. But otherwise there just isn't any way to
> know.
Perhaps an auto-reply could be sent to those who are
not on the list, with a suggestion to join the list,
and a note saying what ways there are to still read the
replies (if joining the list isn't attractive for some
reason).
But in a way I don't like that because every time I get
automatic mails they say stuff I don't care for and/or
already know.
But wait: When people aren't on the list, and they are
not on Usenet, how do they learn of the list/group in
the first place?
At those places, perhaps the equivalent message can be
showed? Then it is a matter of not having too much
other text on that page, so that not the future poster
will be tempted to skip it and remain uninformed.
--
underground experts united
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-16 8:57 How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ? Kro Ly
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2014-08-16 11:29 ` Quanyang Liu
2014-08-16 12:51 ` Grant Rettke
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2014-08-16 21:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-17 1:16 ` Quanyang Liu
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2014-08-17 2:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-18 15:22 ` Kro Ly
2014-08-18 15:37 ` Yuri Khan
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2014-08-18 20:12 ` Kro Ly
2014-08-19 2:41 ` Yuri Khan
2014-08-20 5:40 ` Bob Proulx
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2014-08-20 17:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-21 3:43 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.7303.1408592631.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-22 0:09 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-08-18 17:45 ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2014-08-18 17:54 ` Bob Proulx
2014-08-18 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-19 0:17 ` Bob Proulx
2014-08-19 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-18 21:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-18 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-08-18 23:03 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <7zsiksvpg9.fsf@example.com>
2014-08-19 16:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-19 22:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-16 23:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-17 1:22 ` Quanyang Liu
[not found] ` <mailman.7149.1408238590.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-17 2:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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[not found] ` <87sikv9cal.fsf_-_@debian.uxu>
2014-08-17 19:45 ` how to determine if to reply by CC as well (was: Re: How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ?) Emanuel Berg
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2014-08-17 21:53 ` how to determine if to reply by CC as well Emanuel Berg
2014-08-18 0:27 ` Quanyang Liu
2014-08-18 17:46 ` Bob Proulx
2014-08-19 9:07 ` Quanyang Liu
[not found] ` <mailman.7199.1408384010.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-18 21:56 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-08-19 0:30 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.7218.1408408231.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-19 1:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-19 14:25 ` Will Parsons
2014-08-19 14:59 ` Quanyang Liu
2014-08-19 17:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-18 12:57 ` How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ? Robert Thorpe
2014-08-18 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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