Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:23:15 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping the bloody cross posting. Message-ID: <19980716092315.15276@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199807152258.SAA17222@xxx.video-collage.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:58:07PM -0400 References: <19980716085300.28556@welearn.com.au> <199807152258.SAA17222@xxx.video-collage.com>
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On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:58:07PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Sue Blake once stated:
>
> =On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 02:57:30PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> => Tim Vanderhoek once stated:
> =>
> => It looks like a special header a-la Newsgroups: (X-MalingLists) is needed.
>
> =Hehe, I wonder how pleased the linux-newbie people would be to see that
> =I read so many freebsd lists, or what the ladies in crochet-partners
> =would think if my mail suddenly bulked out with the names of 58
> =technical sounding mailing lists in the header :-)
>
> This would only happen if you were to crosspost the same message to
> all those lists.
Oh, I misread the context and missed the newsgroup analogy. Poo.
I thought you were proposing this as a way of letting others know, for
example, if you're subscribed to -chat or need a personal response.
Silly me, just when I thought we were having fun!
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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