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.
Though it seems that sometimes I don't get a copy delivered directly to me, but only the list e-mail -- even though I'm in the CC. I think this happens when the mail is sent from someone @denx.de, so the server discards the duplicate, defeating the whole point of CCing a particular person.
for the remaining addresses question is if these people really need to be informed, and if so, if they should rather subscribe to the list (or if a company-internal mailing list address should be used instead).
So far, I have manually ACKed all postings that were helt by the mailing list software because of too many recipients. From now on, I will not do this any more, but rather reject those messages.
How about reconfiguring the list software instead?
-Scott