From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 20: 8:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C09915239 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA09806; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:04:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:04:49 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Rob Cc: Greg Lehey , Amancio Hasty , Marius Bendiksen , Bill Swingle , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <19990420220448.N1229@futuresouth.com> References: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> <199904200128.SAA58573@rah.star-gate.com> <19990420112230.C40482@lemis.com> <19990420225959.A9910@stratos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990420225959.A9910@stratos.net>; from Rob on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:59:59PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:59:59PM +0000, a little birdie told me that Rob remarked > > This might be stretching it, but here goes. > What if the mailing list manager used the information stored in its > database to only send one copy of a message to each user. When it readies > to send a message, it would take the Message-ID of the letter, compares it > to a list of duplicates, and only sends one copy to the users preferred > default mailing list? > Would this take too much CPU time to figure out? Am I making any > sense? Some of us PREFER getting a copy in each list. Each freebsd-foo list gets procmail'd into a different folder for me. If someone crossposts to 2 lists, and 2 people reply to it, each restricting it to one of the 2 lists (each different), I'd end up half-lost in one place, especially if I read the wrong folder first. With a copy in each folder, it makes discussions much easier to track. To slightly modify a quote from Terry Lambert from long ago: > Does this strike anyone else as a discipline issue rather than > a technical control issue? -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message