From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 23 13:11:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA28640 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:11:52 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28629 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:11:46 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA19522 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 22:11:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA17560 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 22:11:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA22521 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:35:20 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509231935.VAA22521@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: multiple mail messages To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:35:19 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509231429.KAA07671@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 23, 95 10:29:10 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 Content-Length: 775 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Coranth Gryphon wrote: > > > People are generally too lazy to trim the Cc lists even when they know > > Getting one duplicate is annoying, but at least understandable if > the mailer program is brain-damaged about not duplicating in a CC. It's not the mailer, it's people: the mailer cannot know if you are already on the list (most people have different from: and subscription addresses for one or the other reason). > It's gettting four copies of everything that is the problem.. The question has been (erroneously) sent to two lists in parallel in the first place. Nobody bothered to drop one of the lists from the Cc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)