On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Scott Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:29:30PM -0700, MargoAndTodd wrote: >> >> This list and Dag's list does not echo back to the sender. > > They do if you use another client. Gmail has this feature which > everyone considers a bug, where what you send to a mailing list will not > show up to you until there is a reply.
This isn't really a feature/bug, rather it's a side-effect of a different feature, which is that gmail does automatic suppression of duplicate messages. Their algorithm for this is a bit of a black box but it seems to be a heuristic based both on the Message-Id header and the message contents. Messages which have the same ID or are "sufficiently similar" are treated as identical and you only get to see the one that arrived first. Because gmail throws your sent mail into the same giant bucket as everything else, distinguished only by having been labeled "sent", when the copy returned by the mailing list arrives your original is always "the one that arrived first" and the mailing list copy gets ignored. To fix this "bug" would require a fairly fundamental change in the way gmail stores and processes sent mail and duplicate messages, which is probably why nothing has been done about it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
