Ralf Hildebrandt via Mailman-Users writes: > I'm sure I can hack something up in Postfix, but is there an easy > way (tm)?
Get rid of Exchange. :-) This is not something Mailman should implement in my opinion. The author decided to send a single message to multiple addresses. Evidently that author considers it to be the same message regardless of which list delivers it. I also don't think it makes for a healthy community based on the points below. It may work fine in some special cases, but it seems likely to cause a lot of confusion. Now, as Richard Damon points out, whether two messages should have the same Message-ID is not a matter of identical content, it's whether users consider them "the same". Since a mailing list is an intermediary, that is, it removes a message from the Internet mail system, processes it, and then reinjects it, the mailing list can claim to be the originator of the distributed post in some sense (though obviously not in the sense of copyright law!) So if you want to make this decision for all subscribers, you can do that. However, here are some points to consider. - Are the recipients who subscribe to both lists unanimous in their desire to duplicate messages in this way? If not, are the individuals who want distinct messages "more important"? - Unless you are very clear about this change, some recipients may think the authors are sending multiple copies, and ask them to desist. - Anybody who uses reply-all will also have their posts duplicated in the same way. This will create a weird proliferation of threads, which I doubt will display sanely in most mail clients. - It will very likely cause more than usual redundant posts because even people who are subscribed to both will be missing most of the potentially relevant replies. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ Member address: arch...@jab.org
