Mon, 4 Nov 1991 17:25:37 +0100
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1991 08:49:12 GMT Don Barker <62623@UCDASVM1> said:
> We have noticed that mail sent to the listserver via profs becomes
>indented by one space when the note is finally distributed.
Yours wasn't indented.
> Also we use the forward facility in Profs a great deal. What this
>does is include the prior notes and send it along with your reply. If
>the listserver sees the same Send: or Reply: name further down in the
>notes it will not send out the note since it expects to get into a loop.
>Has anyone modified this facility to allow a Profs forwarded note, with
>the same listname be sent to the same list?
This would be a bad thing. It is both impolite and a waste of network
bandwidth to forward an entire copy of the original posting back to
hundreds of people (who might not even be interested in this particular
topic), just because you want to reply to it. Imagine what would happen
to the size of the average posting if everyone was doing that: after 5
iterations, you'd have to skip through a few hundred lines of already
posted text to discover that the actual contents were "I agree with this
new version of the proposal". Many operating systems impose restrictions
on the maximum amount of data in a user's mailbox; imagine how a VMS user
would feel if private mail had been rejected because of 20 PROFS users
having an argument on a list he subscribes to, and having generated
thousands of lines of junk mail overnight.
> Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ... Use Electronic Mail.
Precisely: reduce the volume of included junk material that the user has
already seen and may retrieve from the server again if he lost it.
Eric
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