On Monday 01 June 2009 22:00:12 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
there is an increasing number of postings with loooooong lists of recipients (10 addresses and more); usually several of these are regular and active users of this mailing list so this is actually redundant;
It is not redundant -- including a person in the CC list brings the mail to their attention faster (and with less chances of missing it) than if they have to pick it out of the list.
An email message is a message is a message, isn't it? The message on the list and the Cc: are identical, aren't they?
No, they not identical. For example my internal mail filtering will move all mails directed to the list to a special u-boot list folder and those mails addressed to me directly not. So I see all mails addressed to me in my inbox which helps me to not miss anything relevant for me (ppc4xx etc).
Best regards, Stefan
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