Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:46:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, mi@video-collage.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@hub.freebsd.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping the bloody cross posting. Message-ID: <19980715124645.A15083@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807150311.UAA02778@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 08:11:25PM -0700 References: <19980715123151.Z15083@freebie.lemis.com> <199807150311.UAA02778@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, 14 July 1998 at 20:11:25 -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> I agreee that it's important to copy people personally on messages >> that concern them, but that's not the issue here. The original >> flamefest^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion was about copying multiple >> lists. I think Mikhail summed it up well: we have a technical >> problem, and as long as it exists people should avoid sending messages >> to multiple lists, even if it would otherwise make sense. > > well.....we have a 90% percent solution to this problem. > > as it stands now, if you send email to more than 2 FreeBSD > mailing lists (such as test@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org > and test@freebsd.org again) the email will be returned > to you with a little note saying "dont to that!" Ah. So that's what you've been doing. > we allow 2 lists so that you can move a discussion from > one list to another. > > hopefully this will ease the problems that we have had > with this issue. Well, it should stop the complaining, but it's a workaround, not a solution. If I have a message that is of interest to, say, -questions, -hackers, -newbies and -chat, I should be able to send it, and the message should be delivered to each member of each list *once only*. That goal should be within reach, at least for people who aren't also on sublists. You could even handle the sublist case at the receiver's end: before delivering a message locally, check if he hasn't already received it. Now that's theory. In practice, of course, none of this stuff exists (and don't look to me to write it). But that doesn't make it a bad idea. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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