[TUHS] Puzzled about COFF

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:59:28AM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I subscribe to the TUHS mailing list, delivered in digest form. I do not
> remember having subscribed to COFF, and am not aware of how to do so. Yet
> COFF messges come in my TUHS digest. How does COFF differ from TUHS and how
> does one subscibe to it (if at all)?

What sometimes happen is that a message will be sent to both the COFF
and TUHS lists, and then when someone replies, you'll still see [COFF]
in the subject line.

As Clem mentioned on another thread with the same question, best
practice when moving a thread which is no longer on-topic with
Unix/TUHS (e.g., when westart talking about Mainframes, VMS, et. al)
is to Bcc: TUHS saying that you are moving the discussion to COFF.
That's because if you use CC, then when someone responds, it replies
go to both list, instead of moving the discussion from one list to
another.

						- Ted