Re: Why replies are often sent to sender - was Re: KDE freezing
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 19:39, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 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.
Nope. I am pleased to mention that your duplicate message went straight
to my duplicates folder (and then quickly to the void). I am still
testing it.
Shri
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