From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 20: 6:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789691514F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03540; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13791; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990421024315.E38B11505C@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:03:57 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Rob Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Apr-99 Rob wrote: > This is far fetched. But what about a mailing list system that > stores subscribers in a database, together with the lists they are > subscribed to. That way, when the mailer gets ready to send out mail > to each user, it could compare Message-Ids and only send one copy of > a message (maybe to a preferred list?) > Of course, this could only work on the systems that implement this > idea, and would probably take some more CPU time doing the comparisons > (unless it kept a running table of cross-posted email) > > Does this make any sense? I wonder if it could work. I just saw that we publicly humiliate people who insist on excessive cross-posting after being warned. We'll moderate ourselves. :) > -Rob --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message