Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 08:47:56 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple mail messages Message-ID: <199509240747.IAA29850@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509240419.WAA07762@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 23, 95 10:19:28 pm
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As Nate Williams wrote: > > > 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. Do you remind that many people are not within a "can get'em within 10 minutes" US Internet anyway? :-) For me with my polled UUCP link for example, i'm typically getting 50 ... 100 messages in a single batch... No speedup by duplicates. :) -- 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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