From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 07:34:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA20492 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 07:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20480 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 07:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA28728; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:34:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:34:14 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9603011534.AA28728@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Richard Wackerbarth" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Eliminating Duplicate Postings In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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