If you login to Mailman, and look at the bottom of the User's preferences page, you will see a section entitled "Avoid duplicate copies of messages?" It does precisely what it's description says: "When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. Select Yes to avoid receiving copies from the mailing list; select No to receive copies."

It's unlikely that anyone is receiving duplicate copies of messages unless they explicitly choose to. I believe by default, for new members to the TriLUG list, that option is set to Yes. Perhaps Tanner or one of the other admins can clarify that (General page, Additional Settings, Filter out duplicate messages to list members).

The original source of the user's name being in the headers is if they have a Reply-to field set by their email client. If so, Mailman will only add to that, not strip out the existing reply-to(s) from the message. This behavior is also configurable at the Mailman general options page, although given the situation I'd almost guarantee that it's not set to strip additional Reply-to headers, or we wouldn't be having this discussion. :)

Aaron S. Joyner


Mike M wrote:


On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:01:52PM -0700, Turnpike Man wrote:


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There it is.


It's a preference of the sender.  Not to worry unless the sender
complains about getting 2 copies.

Sometimes broken mail clients send list replies to the list and the
individual. Sometimes people misuse their mail clients with the
same result. Neither of these cases exist here.



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