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[Sasha Tsykin]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 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 ;-)
> 
I received 96 emails today. Not exactly low traffic.

Sasha