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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 1995 08:47:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple mail messages
Message-ID:  <199509240747.IAA29850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509240419.WAA07762@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 23, 95 10:19:28 pm

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As Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > People are generally too lazy to trim the Cc lists even when they know
> > that all recipients are actually on the mailing list.
> 
> Actually, I *intentionally* leave people on the Cc lists if I think the
> material is going to be discussed some, since with the bulk_mailer stuff
> it is difficult to discuss topics with any sort of speed, since it may
> take a very long time for the person to get the reply via the mailing
> list.

Do you remind that many people are not within a "can get'em within 10
minutes" US Internet anyway? :-)

For me with my polled UUCP link for example, i'm typically getting 50
... 100 messages in a single batch...  No speedup by duplicates. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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