From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 01:49:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12489 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12460 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:48:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA06179 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:47:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA19378 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:47:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA00413 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:37:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602060937.KAA00413@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: List Duplicates To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:37:27 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Julian Jenkins" at Feb 6, 96 11:50:18 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Jenkins wrote: > 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? It's almost impossible. For example, if somebody g)roup replies to a message i've sent to -hackers, the message will go to hackers and to joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (my default reply-to address), whereas the list server would notice that only freebsd-hackers@ uriah.heep.sax.de is subscribed to the hackers list, and therefore still send a message back to me. The only chance is that people start editing their Cc lines before sending out a message. Alas, this is also impossible due to the general laziness of man. The xfree86-beta list solves this by the general policy that each *sender* of a message (not the list daemon) sets the reply-to field to the list himself. This seems to work. It's admittedly easier for them since xfree86-beta is a closed list, i.e. you can expect the authors of any mail to the list being on the list himself. But this is still no excuse for people on the freebsd lists to always keep everyone in the Cc, even in case this is already the umpteenth reply, and they would have known quite well that all the Cc'ed persons *are* on the list. I usually remove the Cc manually, and set the To field to the list (by an alias in the mailer), as long as i'm sure that the poster is also listening. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)