Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scribit Marco Gerards dies 02/05/2006 hora 09:46: >> > To all members of the list: please reply to the list. In the >> > previous two weeks, I received a personal copy of exactly hundred >> > emails. >> This is the normal way of posting on any mailinglist. > > Don't generalize too fast. This is definitely not the normal way of > posting on most mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and also considered an > annoyance on most of them. > > Which has lead me to perceive it as such.
On any list I am on this is the normal thing to do. > It can be the rule here, which I shall respect if it is and stop > complaining, but this definitely not is a rule everywhere. > >> Fix your mailclient instead of telling everyone how to work. > > My mail client has not to be fixed. It obeys all the standards headers > defined for the electronic mail by the IETF, in the STD and RFC tracks. > > Additionaly, my mail client is not involved in distributing incoming > mail. When I receive mail twice, one I'm the direct recipient without > anything inbetween and one being transmitted by a mailing list, it would > be a bug in my MTA not to deliver the first in my personal incoming mail > box and the second in my hurd-l4 incoming mail box. > > As for the other mail on this very subject, just prove me wrong if you > think I am, I will sincerely listen to your arguments if they are > consistent. > > So far, no sound technical mean was proposed to me to prevent the > annoyance of receiving mails twice, so I tried a social mean. Some mailclients can be configured to remove/hide duplicates. -- Marco _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
