Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:28:39 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:53:36 %2B0930." <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com>
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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. > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 2:26:14 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, I agree that cross posting is bad and that in general people should not > > do it . > > In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both > lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > No, I don't know how to solve it (if it were easy, it would already > have been solved). But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that > people who cross-post often do it because they believe that it's > relevant to each list. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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