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[Eric Dunbar]

On 10/04/06, John <dingo at coco2.arach.net.au> wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:09 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> >
> >>It's not very funny; unsolicited email /IS/ spam by definition and I'm
> >>sure most of us don't really want to be known as spammers.  If it is
> >>the software that is responsible (as I find now that it is) then  I
> >>need
> >>to issue an apology to someone. (Sasha, I'm sorry for jumping you when
> >>you were just doing what the software made you do.)
> >>
> >>Truly, I am amazed that Evolution(?) is that broken.
> >>Maybe Evolution's author(s) don't use mailing lists.
> >
> > It's really not that broken - the Ubuntu lists are weird in that they
> > don't set Reply-To to the list address, and people consider using
> > Reply-To-All to be spamming them.
> >
> > On most mailing lists either the list sets Reply-To to the list address,
> > or (more commonly) users don't mind getting 2 copies of the message
> > because they filter one copy into the list folder and one in their inbox
> > so the threading is preserved for both provate replies and replies to
> > the list.
>
> I really don't think many people like two copies, and the default
> behaviour for mailman is to not send me a copy if my email's in the
> headers, and the result at my end is mis-sorted mail and broken threads.

Is it really the end of the world to receive two copies of an e-mail
on a low volume list like sounder? Plus, the only people who might
receive duplicate e-mails are those who post anyway ;-) Methinks there
are better things to get worked up about like lack of Photoshop on
Linux ;-)