Some news for this: [PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD ?

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 23 November 2007 08:42:16 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> > Please don't reply to the list only.  If you are asking me a question,
> > it is really impolite to send it elsewhere.  And I bet others would like
> > to stay on Cc: as well.
> 
> Sorry, no harm intended. (I tend to view discussions on a mailing list as 
> being on the mailing list, not between a couple of people with a cc to the 
> mailing list, because other people on the list should feel they can 
> respond to the questions posed. But either way is fine with me).

Some discussions are on several mailing lists.  Some people like me
regularly read about a dozen mailing lists.  Linux-kernel alone accounts
for nearly 400 mails a day.  Some people "read" mailing lists with the
'D' key and only occasionally stop when spotting something interesting.
Since I moved to my own server about a year ago, I received 1.3GB of
mail, not counting spam.

The only reasonably sane strategy I know is to simply reply to all and
not worry about the size of the Cc: list.  If the discussion was private
before, it remains private.  If it was public, it remains public.

Jörn

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If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach,
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