Re: What's in git.git (stable)

Steven Grimm [off-list ref] writes:

Interesting. I'd actually prefer people *remove* me from the CC list -- 
I find it annoying to get two copies of every message in threads I
reply to. I'm already subscribed to the mailing list, so there's no
point having me on the Cc line too. (Mind you, as annoyances go it's a
pretty insignificant one.)

I can understand the case of people who aren't on the list wanting to
get replies, but why does someone who *is* on the list want to be
CCed? Is it just that there's no good way to tell in advance which
category a given person falls into, so best to be on the safe side?

There is no cheap and mechanical way to tell that for the
sender, and even when the sender can tell, it is not polite to
do so (see next paragraph), unless the recipient specifically
ask for it.  On the other hand, filtering duplicates at the
recipient's end could be mechanically done without wasting the
human time.  And people's time tend to be a lot more expensive
than machine time and the cost to send extra bits over the wire.

Some people (including me) prioritize e-mails and respond to
messages that are addressed To: them first, then Cc: next, and
finally the rest of the messages that came only through the
mailng list.  Dropping a recipient from the Cc: list, even when
the sender knows that recipient is on the list, breaks this.

People can safely remove *themselves* from the CC: list when the
mailing list they subscribe to are on the CC: list as well.
This would interact with the prioritizing I mentioned above, but
that is done as a choice by them as the recipient of the
replies, so there is no problem in doing so.