Hi Yavor,
* Yavor Doganov yavor@gnu.org [091210 18:40]:
Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- *E-Mail signature* Keep it small and simple. Signatures longer than five lines should be avoided.
IIRC in the good old days the standard was maximum 4 lines (5 lines with the "-- " sig separator).
- *Mailinglists* Use list-reply. It is not necessary to include the sender in To: or Cc: if he is subscribed. If the e-mail programs are configured correct the sender will be Cc’ed if he is not subscribed or wishes to be Cc’ed.
Hmm. This is certainly debatable. On GNU and GNOME mailing lists (and I dare to say, on *most* free software lists) the default policy is to always to CC people who participated in the thread.
I tend to agree. I use the list-reply function mainly if, for example, a question from someone comes to a private mailinglist and my reply is intended as list-internal (thus, I also change the subject line) or if I know the sender of a message is on that list anyway. Otherwise, I almost always use mutt's group-reply function, which replies to the sender *and* the mailing list, additionally setting the Mail-Followup-To: header to the list and the receiver. Since I actually don't want to get doubled messages, I (if possible) configure the mailing list software to not send me duplicates. That way, I stay on top of the discussion as replies go to my main inbox and is not automatically put into the mailing list folder without receiving every message x times.
Just my €0,02
Martin