Re: learn procmail and quit whining already (was Re: Debian lists and Cc'ing people in replies in addition to the list)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> 1) cross-posting is at least as controversial a practice as CC'ing,

Less so, it can be useful. I completely fail to see the use of cc'ing
people when they are already subscribed to the list.

> 2) you have the option of weeding duplicates only on mail that concerns you:

I know.

> 3) you have the option of having a separate dupe cache for each mailing
> list:

That follows from 2.

> Having a partial knowledge of mail filtering introduces problems.

No, it makes it obvious that it's a lot of effort to work around
people who are simply to stubborn to stop cc'ing people.

Wichert.

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