Re: Why replies are often sent to sender - was Re: KDE freezing

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On 28 Aug 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 06:17, Barney Wrightson wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > P.S. Why do people insist on sending duplicate emails via CC: when it's
> > > obvious we are all subscribed to this mailing list anyway? As if there
> > > isn't enough spam already?
> > > -
> > > Davis's Dictum:
> > > 	Problems that go away by themselves, come back by themselves.
> > > 
> > 
> > It's probably because by default reply-to is to the sender and not the 
> > list, I rememeber a debate about this on the list a while ago, but I 
> > can't remember why it was decided that this is a "Good Thing". I would 
> > have thought, if the policy was to reply to the list only (unless asked) 
> > then that hitting reply should give you this behaviour by default. <shrugs>
> 
> There are several *good* reasons for this as other have pointed out. If
> you have procmail or anything like that, you can easily filter out
> duplicates (which is what I do). For this interested, procmail recipe
> is,
> 
> :0 Whc: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache
> 
> :0 a:
> .duplicates/

I bet you got this both from me and from the list, because the list
software _changes_ the content of the message (adding the footer,
resending with a different message ID), so that it's no longer a duplicate
of the original I sent.

Patrick

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