Re: mail is sent double

Joel Plutchak (plutchak@porter.geo.brown.edu)
Mon, 20 Dec 93 08:40:47 EST

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> From scs@eskimo.com Fri Dec 17 09:06 EST 1993
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 15:45:37 -0800
> From: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit)
...
> I'm sorry people are upset by receiving multiple copies in this
> case. My mail-replying filter always arranges to send copies
> both to the original sender and to all CC recipients, so the
> sender will receive two copies if he's also on the mailing list,
> which is exactly the current complaint. Now, I wrote my
> mail-replying filter, so I could change its behavior if I wanted
> to, and I'm also eminently comfortable with editing mail headers
> while composing messages.

That doesn't seem to be the only problem. I frequently get double
messages, even if I haven't sent anything to the list in months. I've
just been ignoring the duplicates, but thought I'd mention it now lest
the problem be misdiagnosed.

> But I've always been aware of this
> duplicate copy problem, and explicitly sending copies both to the
> originator and the list is my intended and preferred action, for
> two reasons:
>
> 1. You can send messages to a mailing list without being a
> member of it.

This is only true for some lists.

> 2. When you get a lot of mail, it's easy to pay less
> attention to mailing list mail than to private mail.
> Some people have mailing lists routed to different
> mailboxes, or to local Usenet-style newsgroups.
> I'm always more interested in messages to a mailing list
> (or newsgroup) which are in reply to something I've said,
> and I assume that many others feel the same, so it seems
> appropriate to address a copy to them directly.

If people set things up in a way that makes sense for them, I
personally wouldn't presume to try to get around those personal
preferences. But, hey, that's just me (a user-support type guy
who believes that the user is at least *sometimes* right :).

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