From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 01:22:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA11275 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 01:22:23 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA11262 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 01:22:17 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA04906; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 09:22:13 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA22175; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 09:22:13 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA29850; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 08:47:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509240747.IAA29850@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: multiple mail messages To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 08:47:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509240419.WAA07762@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 23, 95 10:19:28 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 852 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)