On 1/28/08, Mikhail T. wrote: > Can our mailman installation be tweaked to eliminate all or some of the above > undesirable effects? Thanks,
Not without source-code level modifications, no. The elimination of duplicates being sent to individuals is something that might be implemented in a future version of Mailman, but that would require that each list have complete knowledge of who all the overlapping subscribers are for all the other lists that are known recipients of the message. And that would still break down if the sender created one message and sent it to one list, then took the same message and sent it separately to another list, etc.... Moreover, the list can't know that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the same person as [EMAIL PROTECTED] on another list, although future versions of Mailman will allow people the option of registering multiple different e-mail addresses that are all associated with the same identity, so if they choose to make use of that function, you would at least have a better chance. Either way, I wouldn't look for these features to arrive before the mythical Mailman3 that we occasionally hear about. OTOH, I'm not sure that this is something that should ever be the responsibility of the mailing list software. The complete suppression of duplicates is something that can only be done conclusively by the receiver, and not the sender. As for the rest, the message was sent to multiple lists, and therefore it should definitely show up in multiple archives. I don't think that you're going to find any way around that one. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
