Re: Personalities and progress

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:31:26 +0200

> Actually, I don't see any reason to either CC or send directly to anyone
> involved in a discussion on this list. Why not send *only* to the list?
> If you send to both the list and a person, either directly or via CC,
> they just end up seeing the message twice.
>
> I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general, isn't sending only to the
> list the best thing to do?

No, because trip through the list is much slower than mail Cc'ed directly,
so people directly involved in the discussion can communicate faster than
RTT of the list.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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