From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 13 12:20:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C9437B64B for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010513192043.ZUMZ22926.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:20:43 -0700 Message-ID: <3AFEDE8A.6F7F01F2@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:20:42 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multiple copies - was Re: rc script seems to be broken for nfs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dinesh Nair wrote: > > is it only me, or has freebsd-stable been receiving multiple copies of > this same message over and over again ? > > --dinesh > It may be that people mail it multiple times. If you get a message from freebsd-stable, and you press the "reply" button the email goes back to the person who sent it. So if you want to send the message to freebsd-stable, typically people press the "reply all" button. But this goes to freebsd-stable, the person who sent it, and most everybody else who is on the "To" or "Cc" of that email. People like me are often too lazy to edit the list of recipients of the email. One way to resolve this could be to change the majordomo settings of the freebsd mailing lists so that the "Reply-To" field is set to e.g. freebsd-stable. One disadvantage of this approach is that it is then not so easy to reply only to the individual who sends the email. Well I have this feeling that people argued vigorously about this long before I had even heard of FreeBSD, and probably freebsd-stable is not the appropriate place to discuss this. But I was just providing my answer to the above message. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message