Re: [arch-d] Mail Etiquette

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Vincent,

I tend to use Reply All by default to avoid interested recipients
being missed. A lot of IETF discussions end up cross-posted to
multiple WGs or even being switched to a different WG, so those
extra CCs can be important.

There's a catch in Reply All though: if you forget to delete
(say) [e-mail], that's a guaranteed annoying bounce
message.

With mailman lists, you can suppress duplicates in your personal
config, with the "Avoid duplicate copies of messages?" option:

"When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. Select Yes to avoid receiving copies from the mailing list; select No to receive copies." 

There's also the "Receive your own posts to the list?" option.

On 11-Apr-20 05:16, John C Klensin wrote:
...
> That said, the reality is that different of us follow different
> conventions, sometimes not even being consistent about that on a
> given day.  You will see the same thing with decisions as to
> whether to write responses inline with a copy of the original
> message or to make one's comments at the top.   There is no
> fixed rule and people seem to do what they thing best and
> everyone just learns to cope.

Indeed. Wrapped text or hard returns? With hard returns, line
length? Worst of all, HTML instead of text/plain. Sometimes,
not even charset=utf-8. Different quoting and commenting methods;
some people even rely on colour (which they probably spell "color").

It would be a brave person who tried to write down the best practice.

> welcome to the IETF.

+1

Stay well,
     Brian