From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 23 21:17:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA17633 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:17:20 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA17628 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:17:16 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA07762; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 22:19:28 -0600 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 22:19:28 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199509240419.WAA07762@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple mail messages In-Reply-To: <199509230753.JAA17380@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199509230325.XAA05328@healer.com> <199509230753.JAA17380@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [ Multiple email messages ] > > People are generally too lazy to trim the Cc lists even when they know > that all recipients are actually on the mailing list. Actually, I *intentionally* leave people on the Cc lists if I think the material is going to be discussed some, since with the bulk_mailer stuff it is difficult to discuss topics with any sort of speed, since it may take a very long time for the person to get the reply via the mailing list. > That's why i'm > defending myself by dropping my name out of reply-to (ok, Nate, my > procmail is still not set up). *grin* In case you didn't know, procmail has a 'feature' which allows it to filter out duplicate email messges by using the Reference field. It's one of many reasons to use procmail. Nate