On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:01:25AM -0600, Michael Davies wrote: > > Bret Busby said: > > > > So that is why these people insist on sending multiple copies of their > > posts to the list - because "evil will always triumph over good".... > > > > And I would assume that committee members would be subscribed to the > > commoners list, and so would not also need messages sent to their list > > in addition to the multiple copies posted to the commoners list. > > bree> head -6 ~/.procmailrc > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir > > # Remove duplicates > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache > while true that procmail can filter duplicates it in no way reduces the responcibility of posters to trim the cc list appropriately. > > Perhaps, if the "moderate all messages" problem is overcome, the list > > administrator could set the Reply To address, to default replies to go > > to the list, we would not get multiple copies of messages that some > > people are sending to the list. > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > I'm not a fan of reply-to being set to lists but it is sometimes appropriate fOr public forums -- Grant Diffey aka "nevyn" http://www.luv.asn.au/ http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/
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