15 Aug
2007
15 Aug
'07
7:22 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:11:40PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
1. When someone uses reply-to-all instead of reply-to-list the intention
is to send two copies. There is no other reason for using reply-to-all.
2. The mechanism you want to rely on - a list not sending a copy to you
because it can find out you will receive another one - is a very specific
one, and will not even work in all cases. If I reply to the list, and a
minute later decide to send you a private copy of my reply, then the list
has no way to discover this and you wll get two copies. Same if I bcc the
private copy.
Filtering out duplicates _has_ to be the job of the client - it is the only
place where all messages meant for it ever come together. And it's easy
enough, just use the message id.
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Florin
Andrei wrote:
But otherwise I get duplicates. This should not be a job for the client,
to remove duplicates. It's the job of the mailing list to work in such a
way that duplicates are not sent. No, it's the result of the settings of my
account on the mailing list
server - remove duplicate messages, which is the correct thing to do.
OK, so you opt to receive only the copy that is sent directly to you
and not the one from the list. In that case you can't blame the list
if what you receive doesn't match your expectations - the copy you do
receive was never handled by it at all.