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Re: list ettiquette (was Re: [RFC] Measuring skills of a Debian Developer)



Today, Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> wrote:
>> No, it isn't. Check out the subscribe parameter and list-reply
>> function.

> The perfect setup would be this:
> 
>   * if the person is on the mailing list:
>      * send only to mailing list
>   * else send to mailing list, and cc to him (or vica versa)

> I have no idea how this can be done unfortunately :(

Because, AFAIK, it can't. Most mailing lists won't give you the
subscriber list for fear of spammers, and the heuristics for
searching a message for "I'm not subscribed, CC to me" lines in a
message (and entering it into a database) would be too difficult to
code correctly.

> I usually prefer graphical MUAs. To my frustration, there is still only
> mozilla and netscape that works and they obviously miss a lot of features.
> I seriously thought about hacking mozilla mail/news recently because I
> didn't have a nice graphical MUA.

Really, you should be using gnus. It's even graphical (especially in
XEmacs). (-:

regards,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, <d96001@htlwrn.ac.at>, antifuchs
Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!



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