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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

FWIW, I also read the list traffic through gmane news gateway.

So, how do you tackle the problem Jakub evidently has, namely to reply to 
all the people who your reply refers to?

I do not "tackle".

I just tell Gnus to follow-up, which does not always do the
right thing [*1*], and I just try to be careful and fix up To:
and Cc: fields by hand as necessary.  The time spent on that on
my part is _worth_ spending than inconveniencing others.

It's just a common courtesy, not "tackling".


[Footnote]

*1* ... most likely because I haven't configured it to do the
right thing, and/or the sender or the gateway puts a wrong
Reply-To: or Mail-Followup-To: header and it ends up honoring
them.

Junio C Hamano wrote:

It's just a common courtesy, not "tackling".
  

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?