VanLUG Email Archive
Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:20:03 -0700
Jonathan Scrowston <jojo.s@bc.sympatico.ca> writes:
> I get mailed responses too (duplication)
Oh, you mean that subscribers are sending copies to both you and to the
list. I'm afraid you'll have to take that up with individual
subscribers, as there's not much I can do about that technically. It's
a social issue. See also the question entitled "Should I mail a copy to
the person I'm replying to?" in the list etiquette FAQ:
http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
I personally consider it rude to send copies to individuals of something
you know they'll get on the list anyhow, unless you know they want the
information urgently. Some feel differently, and most don't even know
what their mail client is doing behind their backs.
One thing you can do that may help a small bit is to add this to your
headers:
Mail-Copies-To: never
A few of modern clients recognise that header and understand it to mean
not to Cc replies to the originial author when doing a group (list)
reply. You could also use filing rules (procmail or whatever) to put
all mail with vanlug@ in the To/Cc but without owner-vanlug in the
envelope into a low priority mailbox which you can scan and purge
periodically. I treat all the junk mail I can this way.
Brian.
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