Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:20:22 +0100
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On Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:14:02 EDT Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]> said:
Thanks for the wish list. A few comments:
>(5) Messages sent to all-request should contain the list name so that
>bounces can be identified with the list whose owner they are for.
Since people often own multiple lists, duplicates are eliminated before
the message is sent. So, there isn't a one to one mapping between owners
and lists. Another problem is that all-request typically reaches a whole
bunch of people. If each message needs to contain the list name, you may
end up with a lot of small individual messages with a handful of
recipients each, which take a lot longer to deliver.
>(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.
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.
>(13) LISTSERV messages in MIME format for messages to list owners,
>postmasters, and in response to commands.
Could you elaborate on that? Most of these messages are plain text. I
don't see how MIME could enhance, say, "You have been added" messages, or
then the command response messages.
Eric
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