Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:23:50PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> On 13Mar, 2012, at 17:18 , Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:14:43AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Please don't send me personal copies of messages that are also going to
> >> the mailing list, as I haven't asked for that.
> > 
> > Mail-Followup-To can help you with that, fwiw.
> > 
> 
> From the Debian mailing list Code of Conduct at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> 
> "When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless
they explicitly request to be copied."

>From that same code of conduct:

"If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy when you
did not ask for it, do it privately."

Also, I think the CoC is wrong in making policy about who to send
replies to. Some people actually prefer getting replies, while others
don't. Since there's a header that nicely allows you to specify just
that, I think a more useful rule in a code of conduct is "use a mailer
that respects the Mail-Followup-To: header, or respect it manually".
This way, people can express their preference, and there should be no
complaints about whether or not replies should be sent.

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