Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] mailing list management | | Date | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:01:05 +0200 |
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Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm> writes:
> Paul Jakma wrote: > >> The person you are replying to can/may: >> >> - /want/ the direct copy (this is the case for quite a few people on >> this list) > > I prefere, and I do it, explicit asking for a CC. > >> - filter incoming mail to supress duplicates > > It is a lot easier to find personal mails than to suppress dupes. > In the former case you can look at References or IRT fields and in the > later you have to *keep* a list of Message-IDs and search it everytime > you receive a letter.
My mail server (cyrus imapd) automatically suppresses duplicates with the default settings. I suppose other mail servers also have this functionality.
> And direct replying generates more traffic.
Not necessarily. Many mailing lists are configured not to send mail to those already in the To or Cc headers.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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