[arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 10:59:49 EST 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jim Pryor
<lists+arch-general at jimpryor.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions.
>> >
>>
>> You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer
>> an email from arch-dev-public? We do this (restrict who can post to
>> that list) quite on purpose, and this is the defined method of
>> answering these emails. Every dev subscribes to this list too so it
>> isn't like your email is getting lost.
>
> Hi Dan, I didn't know that either. I've several times wanted to reply to
> arch-dev-public emails and didn't know how. It's helpful to hear this is
> the expected protocol, thanks.

It used to (not sure if the message has changed) indicate this in the
error response when trying to post to arch-dev-public. Something to
the effect of "please send your reply to arch-general"


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