On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the
> > > > > same address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour
> > > > > for any list run by a non-idiot (like this one)
> > > >
> > > > Is that so? Then will you, please, explain how do people get
> > > > their original messages back?
> > >
> > > There's a copy already in their outbox? And a sane mailer (like say
> > > kmail) will have put the sent copy there already.
> >
> > What does this have to do with what the list server does?
>
> OK, lets go back to step 1, and try to think it through this time.
>
> - a user sends a mail from account X to list Y
> - same user is also subscribed to list Y from account X
> - if list Y sends a copy of the mail to the user at account X, then the
> user has a duplicate because by definition *he already has the
> original*
> - it is completely reasonable to give the list admin the option to
> enable or disable this behaviour


but you are wrong.

You get your email back from the list.

GMAIL just does not show it.
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