>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russ> That means if you want to reply to just the list, you have to make a Russ> manual effort to delete everyone else's address. *But* you can't do that. Suppose I'm sending to perl-beginners, and also cc'ing a few of my expert friends who aren't on the list. If you *remove* the cc, you will keep them from seeing your message. And this is also another thing that is broken with "reply-to" lists, because your reply will go *only* to the list, and not to everyone mentioned in the header. That's wrong. Your message should go to either the original sender (a person, NOT the list), or to *everyone* mentioned in the header (or they'll miss out on your reply to my query). That's another objection I had in reading the replies to this thread: the *list* never sends a message. *People* send messages. So the "From" and "reply-to" should never be an mechanical list resending mechanism, because certainly the mailing list software is *not* the origin of the text. Because of reasons listed above, I will *never* trim the headers, because I'm never sure who is subscribing via the list and who was simply added via cc. If you want to do duplicate rejection, please note that every message contains a message-id that is unique per message. I reject duplicates via procmail. You can do the same. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
