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Date: | Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:16:36 EDT |
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> >(7) When a message is sent to two or more lists on the same server,
> >users subscribed to more than one of the lists should receive only one
> >copy of the message.
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> I'm not sure that this is desirable. For one thing, it isn't consistent:
> the results would depend on whether the lists are on the same server or
> not. The subscriber could have a filter to log the mail in various
> folders based on which list it comes from, and in that case one of the
> two folders would be selected randomly to receive the message, and it
> wouldn't be in the others. Again, while this saves disk space, it isn't
> very consistent. It isn't even consistent with news where, while there is
> only one copy of the message, it will be shown in both newsgroups. With a
> mail interface this will not be the case.
I'm subscribed to a lot more lists on our own server than any other and
there is a fair amount of cross posting, so it would help quite a bit
in a common case here.
With regard to the filtering, the headers should mention both lists.
Wouldn't that take care of it?
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