Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:31:24 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, fullermd@futuresouth.com, mi@video-collage.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@hub.freebsd.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping the bloody cross posting. Message-ID: <199807150329.UAA04827@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:46:45 %2B0930." <19980715124645.A15083@freebie.lemis.com>
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In message <19980715124645.A15083@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: } On Tuesday, 14 July 1998 at 20:11:25 -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: } > we allow 2 lists so that you can move a discussion from } > one list to another. } > } > hopefully this will ease the problems that we have had } > with this issue. } } Well, it should stop the complaining, but it's a workaround, not a } solution. If I have a message that is of interest to, say, } -questions, -hackers, -newbies and -chat, I should be able to send it, } and the message should be delivered to each member of each list *once } only*. That goal should be within reach, at least for people who } aren't also on sublists. You could even handle the sublist case at } the receiver's end: before delivering a message locally, check if he } hasn't already received it. It's not clear that the "once only" part is universally desirable. It may be a good default, but there are no doubt people out there who will want one copy for each list. You're trying to solve a social behavior problem with technology, and are doomed to fail (or at least to have less than 100% success). -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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