On Thu, 23/01/2003 09:49 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:34:49PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von > Bidder said: > Accidentally sending a private reply to the list, or accidentally > sending a public reply privately? Personally, I think the former is > worse. Duplicates don't bother me as much as misdirected private > replies, but then I don't pay directly[1] for increased bandwidth usage. > Were I paying per minute charges, I suspect I'd have a different > viewpoint.
I use the following procmailrecipe to drop duplicate mail: PROCMAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail # Throw away duplicate mail :0 Wh: $PROCMAILDIR/msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 $PROCMAILDIR/msgid.cache Of course I'm still paying for the bandwidth consumed, but that doesn't bother me much. -- Tim van Erven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: F6C9 61EE 242C C012 OpenPGP Key ID: 712CB811 36D5 BBF8 6310 D557 712C B811

