Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:50:18 +1100 (EST) From: Julian Jenkins <julianj@vast.unsw.edu.au> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: List Duplicates Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960206114440.21688p-100000@mucket> In-Reply-To: <96Feb5.145941pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Bill Fenner wrote: > In message <199602052243.PAA00505@phaeton.artisoft.com> you write: > >Point of order: how do I tell which individual addresses in the current > >headers are or are not in the list addresses also in the current headers? > > I will concede the potential of it being nice to have the To: or cc: lines > trimmed by the mail server, although it is a relatively expensive operation, > won't help people for whom multiple addresses map to one, and I sometimes > *like* to be able to have a conversation "outside" the list using cc:'s; > list mail comes really slowly for me. > > Just pointing out that different people use mailing lists differently, I > guess. But if the FreeBSD lists start using Reply-To: then I will have > to write some code to remove it, or something, so that I can still bear > to be subscribed to them. Is it not possible for the list server to scan the list of To: and CC: and not resend to these who have already recieved a copy of the message independantly? Sorry if this has already been suggested but i missed the beginning of this discussion. Julian Jenkins julianj@vast.unsw.edu.au kaveman@magna.com.au
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