On 2019-09-02 at 09:23, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> On 2019-09-02 at 09:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

>>> Try again.
>>> Add Cc: to scdbac...@gmx.net and to yourself.
>>> Then let's see what shows up where.
>>
>> This seems worth trying, but...
>>
>>> (Did you get both copies of my previous mail ?
>>>  One via debian-user, one by Cc: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com ?)
>>
>> ...he wouldn't have gotten both, anyway, due to a known Gmail
>> misfeature.
>>
>> If Gmail receives a message, and sees that you already have a copy
>> of a message (determined, as far as I can tell, exclusively by
>> Message-ID), it will basically discard the incoming message as
>> being redundant.
> 
> I usually read and send messages from and to the present list using
> my Emacs Gnus newsagent, via gmane.news...  So I actually received in
> Gmail just one copy of Thomas' message...

Ah, I'd forgotten about Gmane as an option. Yeah, that would explain
that particular discrepancy, at least.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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