Re: learn procmail and quit whining already (was Re: Debian lists and Cc'ing people in replies in addition to the list)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > How? Quite simple:
> >
> > if (mail is from list1|list2|list3|etc.) {
> >
> > weed out duplicates; # keep cache from two week's worth
>
> You realize that is extremely annoying? If you have a discussion
> that is cross posted to multiple listed you will have the discussion
> split over multiple folders depending on through which list you
> get each email first, which tends to be reasonably random.
Which is why usenet is far better for public discussion (hey! could it be
that it was specifically designed for this? And mail simply not?)
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