On Nov 21, 2003, at 12:04 PM, Michael Hunley wrote:Actually, it is the practice of replying to all that is causing the double send. I got yours twice. Once for your reply to me and again because I am on the list. The right answer is for the list to see that an address on the list is already on the TO or CC list of the original message and skip that. Not as straight forward, but not too difficult for a filter.
But wouldn't that only work in the case where the list machine also handles all of our individual accounts? I would think our email clients simply send the email out to both addresses and they have no way of knowing it actually ends up in the same place.
The email client sends it to both the individual address and the list address. The listserv chooses to not resend it to that individual based on presence in the To: or Cc: field. It would always work (meaning everyone gets one copy) and wouldn't require any of the servers be the same.
One minor exception - if the email client adds them to the To: or Cc: field but doesn't actually send it to them, they'll get no copies. So theoretically, you could exclude someone from getting a list email by modifying your email client to lie. But this isn't a security list - I don't think anyone has reason to be worried about that.
Scott Lamb
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