Re: Managing CC List

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Fred Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > 1) you really want to be sure that any email address removed is on the
    > email list, so that a person is not prevented from receiving the
    > email. If there is another email address is that *not* on the email
    > list, it needs to not be edited away. The objective here is to shorten
    > the CC line, not to exclude people that are presumably interested in
    > the conversation.

Aside from the multiple copies of email that people receive (which MUAs
attempt to de-duplicate, but often fail if the list has to adjust the
message), the additional entries in the archives likely slightly increases
their occurance in spam harvesters.

But, I think that bigger problem is that, since the email goes direct often
arriving many minutes before other people, this encourages a lot of ping-pong
among a subset of participants.  In some of the virtual-IETF meeting
experiments that have been discussed in manycouches, an important thought was
a way to rate limit how fast exchanges go, so that people in many time zones
can participate equally.

I did not quite understand your point (2) about editing.
I think that maybe I've restated it above?

{Now, in addition to changing the subject line, I think that you ought to
have removed the References and In-Reply-To headers to have formed a new
thread}

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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
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