Re: Mailing list headers

[Tim van Erven <tve@vormig.net>]

On Thu, 23/01/2003 09:49 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:34:49PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder said:
> Accidentally sending a private reply to the list, or accidentally
> sending a public reply privately?  Personally, I think the former is
> worse.  Duplicates don't bother me as much as misdirected private
> replies, but then I don't pay directly[1] for increased bandwidth usage.
> Were I paying per minute charges, I suspect I'd have a different
> viewpoint.

I use the following procmailrecipe to drop duplicate mail:

PROCMAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail

# Throw away duplicate mail
:0 Wh: $PROCMAILDIR/msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $PROCMAILDIR/msgid.cache

Of course I'm still paying for the bandwidth consumed, but that doesn't
bother me much.

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