From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 13 14:36:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16474 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 14:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16458; Tue, 13 May 1997 14:36:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199705132136.OAA16458@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reply-to addresses To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <57g1vt2i8a.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at May 12, 97 09:43:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards wrote: > > Wolfram Schneider writes: > > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > > > Yes, but you just did what Joerg complained about: cc'd me even > > > > though you know I'm on the list. > > > > > > See how easy it is to do? We need auto-pruning. :-) > > I think auto-pruning of addresses that are in the mailing list is a > good idea. It takes longer to get a reply if it has to go through the > list but if the discussion is in the list then it makes more sense to > not have a fast track conversation take place. If you need that > fastrack take it off the list. sorry being late with this reply, i have been out of town and nearly off the net. majorodmo cannot do the auto-pruning, by the time the messag gets to majordomo, it has already been sent to all recipients sendmail therefore must do the pruning. as far as i know, sendmail is not able to do this. so we would have to introduce another program/script whose job it would be to auto-prune the addresses. even so, it would fail to handle .forward files (on other hosts) and perhaps remote /etc/aliases as well (depending upon the mail transfer agent at the far end and its configuration) in short, lotta work, little gain as far as i can see ;( jmb