Hi,

I believe that people who _don't_ want two copies can deal with it quiet
easily: for instance, for procmail, see the formail -D option (and the
procmail W flag). I don't know what other means people use to filter
mail, but I guess there are similar methods for other mail filterring
programs.

Moshe

  Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19/02/03 00:09]:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that there are two types of people on this list, with the 
> following motives (both I can understand).
> A. People who want the people who click "reply to all" to send them two 
> messages when replying to them.
> B. People who only want to get each message once, regardless of whether 
> they were in the discussion or not.
> 
> Group B's motives are clear. Group A's motives, of which I am a member, 
> usually stem from mailing list header based filtering. This means that 
> messages sent through the list are filed into one folder, while messages 
> sent to me directly arrive at my inbox. When you click "reply to all" on 
> my messages, you are sending a message to my list's folder, and also one 
> arriving at my inbox, signalling to me that this is a personal answer 
> which should be addressed on a different priority.
> 
> I am not trying to open the "list should add replyto" discussion. Not 
> only has this discussion been answered with the same answer repeatadly 
> each time Nadav raised it, but this is not technically possible with a 
> list that has "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and 
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", all submitting to the same list (which one will 
> you put in the reply to? if someone posted to another address, *the 
> list* will get two copies when clicking "reply to all").
> 
> We do see that the problem is that, when I click "reply to all", I don't 
> know whether to remove the CC to the recipent or not, unless I happen to 
> know the recipent. I know that Muli wants my additional copy, and the 
> Ira doesn't. This is just coincidance.
> 
> What I suggest is that those people who don't want to get double replies 
> manually add the "reply to" upon sending the message. This solves all 
> problems:
> A. Each one decides for himself whether he gets two copies or one.
> B. Noone's decisions are forced upon anyone else.
> C. You know which address you are sending to, you know what to put in 
> the "reply to" field (i.e. - if you are sending to 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], you will not put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the 
> reply to).
> 
> What do you think? Can we, please, put this discussion to sleep once and 
> for all?
> 
> -- 
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> http://www.consumer.org.il/sun/
> 
> 
> 
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