> Mark Smith wrote:
> > Why not just enable the "Avoid duplicate copies of
> messages" option?
>
> Eh? In what? Probably because they aren't, strictly
> speaking, duplicate
> copies. Wait... *googling* Ah, you mean on mailman?
> Simple reason. I
> filter list mail into a folder by list headers. Those
> headers are not present in the CC so they sit in my inbox.
> So by turning nodupes on I would now have part of the
> conversation in my inbox, part of the conversation in the
> list folder. The only way around that would be to filter on
> headers which are common to both the CC and the list message
> which puts us right back to the foolishness prior to the
> mid-to-late 90s when list headers became common place. IE,
> praying that the list admin would set something in the
> Subject line, pray that all software packages along the way
> handled it gracefully and praying for reply-to in spite of
> what the net nazis thought RFC822 said.
> Instead we now have List-ID for easy filtering, List-Post to
> know where to send intial messages and replies to, and
> Mail-Copies-To if one really were in the mood for CCs of list mail.
See what you're saying. Didn't occur to me as I just filter on the [exim] in
the Subject line.
- Mark
