Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:34:14 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Eliminating Duplicate Postings Message-ID: <9603011534.AA28728@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <n1386457336.73376@Richard Wackerbarth> References: <n1386457336.73376@Richard Wackerbarth>
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<<On 1 Mar 1996 07:08:47 -0600, "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net> said: > The rule base would have to be a little more complicated. Mail to x, cc to y > might be a little harder to justify sending only to y when both x and y are > lists. Um, mail to `x' should always be sent to `x', regardless of the value of any other header fields. (And don't start talking about Reply-To, we had that discussion two and a half years ago, and two years ago, and one and a half years ago, and one year ago...) > Alternately, might it be possible, but more complicated, to do something > similar by detecting duplicate messages. You can apply a cannonical filter to > recognize that a message will be received by a higher priority list. > The highest priority list would send one copy to everyone on any of the lists > referenced. Alternatively, users can apply a filter to their incoming mail that filters out duplicate message-ids. The rest of the problem is user education. I try to remind people not to post to multiple lists when I notice it, but it's a constant battle. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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