* Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org>: > This is really a tough problem. Presumably, since mailman doesn't > significantly alter the message (which is one reason it is allowed to > maintain the message-id) it should really matter that the recipient only > gets one copy of the message, or which one.
Yes, only the Subject is slightly being altered. > The idea of dropping second copies of messages also can make some sense, > if you already have a message, do you really need a second copy? This is > almost absolutely right if the two copies are due to being listed twice > in the distribution, or the duplication due to automatic verbatim > forwarding from one address to another. It isn't quite so for sure in > the case of mailing list, or if the user wanted to compare things like > received headers to compare path ways. I suspect that the people > implementing this feature really didn't think about the mailing list case. Or the users wants to check if the message has indeed been distributed via two or more mailing lists! > In conclusion, the fault probably is on the mail system, but they can > probably claim they had good reasons to do it. Hopefully there is a way > to turn off the option if really needed. There's not way of turning this off on Exchange ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org