On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 06:00:36PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> In any case, even if one uses the Message-ID to determine whether a message
> has been seen before, because the directly-sent one will usually arrive
> first, it's likely that it will be delivered to the inbox, demanding
> immediate attention rather than be filed into a mailing list folder for
> perusal in one's CFT.
Surely you filter on ^TO_mailinglist and not on anything silly like
whether it says [mailinglist] in the subject?
> One could of course attempt to detect this particular case by examining the
> To: and Cc: headers looking for list submission addresses, but that involves
> creating more software, which is hateful, ...
Thankfully it doesn't involve creating software, as procmail already
exists.
> Besides, one day some berk is going to Bcc: the list because they're too lazy
> to check what addresses they're spamming, and it'll all just break again.
For people like that, that nice Mr. Raymond invented guns.
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