Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:22:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <19990420112230.C40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:28:39PM -0700 References: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 18:28:39 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> 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. > > 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. Sure. Your message had: Message-Id: <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com>, and I got two copies. How could that be caught earlier? Or if the mailing lists are on two different systems? The first chance to compare the message IDs is at the destination system. Mail readers *could* do that, and it's probably a good option, but it doesn't stop two messages from being delivered, and that's Marius's issue. 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
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