From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 19:58:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from stratos.net (pm3-10-15.stratos.net [207.86.134.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80F014D24 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA14800; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:00:05 GMT (envelope-from drifter) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:59:59 +0000 From: Rob To: Greg Lehey Cc: Amancio Hasty , Marius Bendiksen , Bill Swingle , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <19990420225959.A9910@stratos.net> References: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com> <19990420112230.C40482@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990420112230.C40482@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:22:30AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:22:30AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 18:28:39 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >> [ extra level quotes deleted ] > > > > 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. > > Sure. Your message had: Message-Id: > <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com>, and I got two copies. How > could that be caught earlier? Or if the mailing lists are on two > different systems? The first chance to compare the message IDs is at > the destination system. Mail readers *could* do that, and it's > probably a good option, but it doesn't stop two messages from being > delivered, and that's Marius's issue. > > Greg This might be stretching it, but here goes. What if the mailing list manager used the information stored in its database to only send one copy of a message to each user. When it readies to send a message, it would take the Message-ID of the letter, compares it to a list of duplicates, and only sends one copy to the users preferred default mailing list? Would this take too much CPU time to figure out? Am I making any sense? -Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message