Re: [egit-dev] list culling CC addresses

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

måndagen den 8 mars 2010 21.45.29 skrev  Gunnar Wagenknecht:
> Am 08.03.2010 20:18, schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > It is definitely not the first thing I find amusingly "different" in
> > the Eclipse project!
> 
> Are you talking about the 'Reply-To' header? A lot of SourceForge
> mailing lists used to work this way too. It's a configuration option in
> Mailman that you can set. There are many pros and cons of this option. I
> guess the discussion started last century when the first mailing lists
> were born and is still ongoing.
> 
> > My guess is that nobody in the Eclipse community gets more than 30 mails
> > a day. At least, it is hard to believe that they would continue this Cc:
> > culling practice if they approached the number of emails I have to cope
> > with every day.
> 
> LOL, dude, you never had to deal with colleagues which just love the
> 'reply-all' button or put you on 'cc'/'to' all the time just because,
> don't you? There are so many different ways to keep your inbox in good
> shape. Relying on "send directly to me" is probably the most unreliable
> one. Anyway, it might work for you but never worked reliable for me.
> Today, I'm actually quite happy with a mail client that allows to
> organize mailing lists into a news-group like structure including a
> threaded display. I also use GMANE a lot to following only the stuff I
> care about in different mailing lists.

I side with Dscho here. What are those other better ways?

-- robin