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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:44:43 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: List Duplicates
Message-ID:  <199602032144.OAA04394@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602031648.LAA25217@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Feb 3, 96 11:48:14 am

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> I think others (might) agree on this:
> 
> Theres really no need to copy someone whos clearly on the list when
> sending a message to the list. I think that we all could do without the
> duplicates.

The list handler needs to write a reply-to that only includes the list
and rewrite the cc line to remove people on the list (potentially
removing the cc line entirely).

Most of us are using "elm" and most of us handle list responses,
especially to -questions, where the poster is likely to not be a
subscriber, with elm's "g" -- "group reply" -- command.

Before you suggest that all responses to -questions postings should
be to the poster and not the list, I must point out that it is very
useful from anarchival and design standapoint to have both the
answers and the questions in the list archive, and not just the
questions.

To a lesser extent, these arguments apply to -hackers and -current as
well.

Consider it part of the FreeBSD Documentation Project.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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