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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:35:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple mail messages
Message-ID:  <199509231935.VAA22521@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509231429.KAA07671@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 23, 95 10:29:10 am

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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. ;-)



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