Re: Managing CC List

[Mary Barnes <[e-mail]>]

I'm puzzled as the only time I get duplicate messages is if I'm using two
different email accts.  I have my mailing list subscription configured to
not get duplicates.  Personally, I don't think it's something to make a
deal about - at least for me this stuff is a drop in the bucket compared to
that all other emails I deal with.

It's nice when people change subjects or edit cc's, but then if people were
following the original thread and didn't think a thread of a different
topic was relevant, they could well miss a response.  Again, something in
the not a big deal situation.

Regards,
Mary.

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 5:41 PM Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
> 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}
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
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