Managing CC List

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

Change of subject line.

> On May 18, 2019, at 3:43 PM, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> {why do we accumulate people in the CC who are on the list?  Removing people
> From the CC who are on the list might be an enhancement we could do to mailman}

I would personally favor doing so. In short, I presume that the sender of the message a given message is in reply to will be on the "to" line, and the working group on the CC line along with a random set of other email addresses, any of which can be edited out if they are also members o the mailing list. There are two issue that I see:

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.

2) I'll use this email as an example and discuss a probable issue. It is going to three destinations: [e-mail], [e-mail], and [e-mail]. The third will presumably be edited as suggested, because it's going through mailman; the other two will not, because they are not. BTW, if I had one or more BCC'd addresses, they would also not pass through mailman. If I have that right (I think I do, but I guarantee that there is some email program that will surprise me), the majority of the folks on the list will see the first (the "to") address and third address (the working group), but not Wes's address, but you will see Wes's email address (and Wes will see yours) in addition to the working group address. When you reply, it will get edited, but the messages you and I see will not because we will send them to each other directly. So the behavior of the system will be correct in the sense that each addressed party will receive the email, but it may not be intuitive.