From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 16:28:05 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>> Some (non-USENET) newsgroups exists for the purpose of reporting bugs,
>> the people reporting the bugs are not obliged to read the group. In
>> such a group I'd typically CC followups to the original poster, unless
>> the poster explicitly indicated CC's were unwanted.
> And if MCT is available, the poster indeed has that explicit mechanism.
Not usable for this purpose. They often don't even know they're posting
to a newsgroup. It's a matter of the accepted practice in some particular
newsgroups; the default for some average normal newsgroup should be to not
send cc's unless requested IMO, but there are some newsgroups with a
significantly different culture.
> I am hearing conflicting suggestions for the default state (MCT absent).
> Some want it one way and some want it the other.
I want it to mean the same thing as "never" unless there's some reason for
the poster to believe differently, such as the prevailing culture of the
newsgroup. That means it won't be strong enough to beat people over the
head with, but I think that's forced by the fact that it's not that simple
of a situation.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>