Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:43:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> Subject: Re: STOP THE BLOODY CROSS POSTING! Message-ID: <199807150443.AAA16033@xxx.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714214233.4031A-100000@localhost> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 14, 98 09:59:04 pm"
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Tim Vanderhoek once stated: => IMHO, this should be handled by mailing list software. Make sure => no-one gets the same message ID twice is rather simple, since all = =This is easy. If you only want to "get" the same message ID =once, then filter your own messages based on message ID. Goto =line 320 or so of procmailex(5). Yes, but by then the message already ate up twice or more of the Internet bandwidth then it had to... =Even more importantly, if a message is cross-posted, then it =SHOULD belong in all the -lists it is cross-posted to. It does belong to. And so it says in all (almost all) the headers. You just get one copy... If you wish to store it in several places, your scripts will have plenty of data to select the proper folders. =Consider: I may only scan the -current list today because I'm =short on time. Unfortunately an important notice was =cross-posted to -announce and -current, but the stupid =mailing-list software only sent me the copy that was posted to =-current. The message will not say it is only posted to current. It will list all of the mailing lists. Now, my suggestion does not mean to encourage crossposting. It will only make handling of crosspostings more intelligent. =Cross-posting merely encourages over-use of the mailing-lists, even =with such mailing-list software as you envision. By encouraging =cross-posting, your subscription to -current will slowly become a [...] Wait, wait. I did not suggest to _encourage_ crossposting... But if something happens to belong (in poster's opinion) to -multimedia, -mobile, and -current there should be a way to send it there without annoying people who are subscribed to all three. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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