Help!! How to use a mailing list 'effectively'

[Martin Geisler]

Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> writes:

> I still don't agree with the small minority of email lists that INSIST
> that reply only works to the person who sent the email ... mercurial
> being one of them ... but I ALWAYS strip the other entries in the
> mailto list leaving JUST the mail list address!

This is bad for new contributors. The idea is that people don't have to
subscribe to the Mercurial mailinglists in order to post on them. So if
you remove their address from your reply, they might not see it.

-- 
Martin Geisler

aragost Trifork
Professional Mercurial support
http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/