Re: [META] proper use of mailing list
Re: [META] proper use of mailing list
- Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:28:17 +0100
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At 12:25 -0800 UTC, on 30-12-2001, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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[...] You can't really set up a filter for rejecting duplicate subjects
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and senders, as you were advising Sander, because lots of people reply more
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than one to a thread - their later messages would get deleted. I'm not even
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sure how to do that anyway, or if it's possible. I don't think so, not
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without a script. And to have the filter check the content of every
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incoming message against all previous messages in the same mail folder -
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not only do I think that not possible without some intricate applescript,
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it would take forever even if it were possible.
Indeed it seems to me that such filtering would be difficult to achieve.
Anyway, I prefer prevention ;) Without actually saying so, it seems Chuq
suggested we use a Reply-To header if we want to 'force' (there's no such
thign on the Net) replies be sent to the list. As I explain in my reply to
Chuq in this thread, with Eudora there is a way to automate sending replies
to with a specific Reply-To header. That should override people's "reply to
all" behaviour. Still, it's just a pain killer.
Possibly the same, or something even better, is possible with other mail
clients.
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