At 08:29 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote:
>> That's not the whole picture. People who include the Reply-To can also
>> set the list not to send a duplicate message. . . .
>
>No, the list setting only controls duplicated TO: and CC: addresses,
>and the problem is *not* a duplicate address -- it's the recipient
>address plus the list address.
David, you're missing the point of how this setting works. Please go
back and read my earlier post. If I reply to one of your messages, my
reply has your address in the To field as well as the list address.
When Mailman processes my reply, it sees that your address is in the
To field and also knows that you are a subscriber to the list. So if
'avoid duplicates' is Yes, Mailman will send my message to everyone
on the list *except you*, because it figures you already got a direct
reply from me.
But as we've already discussed, this solution is not without problems.
There are three ways to keep you from getting duplicate emails when
someone replies to one of your posts:
1. The poster has to remember to strip out your address. A little annoying.
2. Henry can set Mailman to strip out Reply-To headers before adding
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Easy, and no significant downside. (Brad
mentioned a scenario in which he was on digest and liked also getting
immediate posts replying to his questions, but this assumes that
posters didn't strip out his address from the reply!)
3. You can take out your redundant Reply-To header, which serves no
purpose in any message you send, since it's the same as your From
header. Easy, and no downside at all.
And this discussion really is taking up far more bandwidth than it's worth.
Aaron.
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