From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 19 18:31:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9095150CA for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA58573; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Bill Swingle , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Cross Posting... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:53:36 +0930." <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:28:39 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Isn't there a message ID associated with each mail message so if I mail something to chat and -current the message should have the same ID and if so you can eliminate the copy . I may be missing something here. > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 2:26:14 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, I agree that cross posting is bad and that in general people should not > > do it . > > In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both > lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > No, I don't know how to solve it (if it were easy, it would already > have been solved). But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that > people who cross-post often do it because they believe that it's > relevant to each list. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message