From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Laursen Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:03:15 +0000 Subject: Re: echoposts Message-Id: <86u0qp6q9o.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk> List-Id: References: <41BEC008.7060406@uz.gov.ua> In-Reply-To: <41BEC008.7060406@uz.gov.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org Maxym Synytsky writes: > Mads Martin Joergensen wrote: > > > * Maxym Synytsky [Dec 14. 2004 11:27]: > > > >>Hello, all! > >>Can someone tell me, is it possible: > >>1. To prevent echoposts from being sended to the original sender; and > > What's an echo post? > For example, when I posted previous message to this mailing list, it came back. > And this one will return, obviosly. :) > Such messages are called echoposts in Ecartis. If the sender doesn't receive his own posts you'll start getting questions about why messages aren't getting to the list. > >> 2. To exclude the address, which is in the list, but was already > >> included in the original post, so that this post came only one time? > > To: somelist@somewhere.com > > Cc: foo@bar.example.com > > So in case foo@bar.example.com is subscribed to the list, you want to > > strip the Cc:? > Well, no. Stripping Cc: won't help, because the message to foo@bar.example.com > is already sent. I'd like mlmmj to send such post to somelist@somewhere.com > minus foo@bar.example.com, in case foo@bar.example.com exists in > somelist@somewhere.com . I never saw the logic in that and find it irritating when I subscribe to lists with that behaviour. You end up with only one message, yes, but in the wrong folder. So when you search for something in the folder for that list it isn't there but in the inbox instead. -- Christian Laursen