On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:23:25PM +0000, MFPA wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 at 7:06:43 PM, in > <mid:20120130190643.gb184...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>, brian m. > carlson wrote: > > The problem is that unlike regular list messages, the > > dupes don't come with the list headers, which makes > > sorting them based on the list headers problematic. > > The group's email address gnupg-users@gnupg.org usually appears in the > To: or CC: field of the duplicate message. Why not filter/sort on > that and catch most of them?
Because that means that instead of using one procmail rule to autosort all mailing lists I have to write one for every list I might subscribe to. This is error-prone and defeats the purpose of using a generic tool to do repetitive tasks easily. Most mailing lists have a List-ID header for this purpose. Majordomo lists use a different convention which is also easily sorted on. Also, when I'm subscribed to a mailing list, I expect people to post their replies to the list unless there's a personal reply that is not appropriate for the list. For lists that require subscriptions, that means that it's guaranteed that everybody will get a copy, which is the point of a mailing list. Why intentionally send me an extra? Who wants two copies of an email? -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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