Subject: Re: CC's on this mailing list

From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:42:05 +0300

I wrote earlier:
> Indeed, but it's the principle that matters. Spam isn't costing me
> all that much either, but I still get furious when I get it.

Dirk pointed out that equating a couple of superfluous Cc's from 
debian-devel with spam isn't exactly polite. Sorry, I was writing too
quickly again.

Spam does make furious, extra Cc's from mailing lists don't. They
just annoy me (see signature), and in theory they do cost me a bit.
Not enough to make me worry about it, but enough to write kilobyte after
kilobyte about it.

I do wish that people wouldn't Cc me when I read the mailing list. I feel
that it is good netiquette not to do that.

This may be a mark that we or I don't think there is enough real problems
with Debian. Hm, perhaps the three month release schedule is one: we have
one month left for the next release, and we're just about to make a big
change in source packaging? Perhaps it would be better to wait an extra
month for this occasion only?

-- 
Rural sizes win <[email-masked]> <http://www.iki.fi/liw/>
Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list.

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From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:45:01 -0400 (EDT)

'Lars Wirzenius wrote:'
>that it is good netiquette not to do that.

I like the CCs because lately I haven't been able to keep up with the
list and knowing that someone responded to something (which shows up
in my mailbox and not the procmail filter) is useful.

>month for this occasion only?

I don't think we have a good mechanism for "code cleanups" before a
major release.  Instead, I think that sticking with "stable" releases
from upstream is the way to keep Debian stable.  I like the three month
schedule, but feel it is mostly independent of maintainer issues.
Though perhaps we should save the source package changes for the
release after next month's?

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