On 11/25/2012 08:12 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote:* Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>, 2012-11-26, 00:19:If your e-mail processing machinery cannot handle duplicate messages (due to cross-postings and CC's), maybe you should get an a better email processing machinery. Receiving duplicate emails is inevitable, and trivial to deal with.Oh really? I've always wondered how is this supposed to work.Well, the software to do it is around for more than 15 years. Google for "procmail duplicate suppression".
But what about cases where suppressing duplicates isn't what you want to do? If someone CCs me on a reply to an on-list message, it means (or should mean) "I specifically want to draw your attention to this, and I think you may not see the reply if I just send it to the list". In cases where they're right, I very likely do want to see the CCed duplicate copy. Not to mention that on-list messages are generally at least slightly different (altered Subject lines and/or list footers being the most common visible examples, and List-ID headers being one common usually-invisible example); I do want the on-list copy (so that messages from the list in my archive are consistent), even if I've already received the off-list copy, but in my experience the Message-IDs of the two variants of the message are very often identical. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger