Clarification: While I'm sure I've been guilty of hitting Reply All on more than one occasion, I do agree with the majority that cross-posting should be avoided whenever possible.
But the fact is, it's not a perfect world, and just as there will always be spam, there will be cross-posts. So while it'd be nice if everyone thought twice before cross-posting, the fact is they don't, and any amount of threads on the topic of double-posts won't make the problem go away. The best thing you can do is set up some filters... Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BYU Unix Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [uug] cross-posting > Here are 2 suggestions that may or may not have been made already: > > If you don't want to receive any cross posts from lists you're not > subscribed to, set up a filter (most decent mail readers have one) that > deletes any messages with both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in > the to or cc fields, or whatever the email addresses happen to be. > > If you don't want duplicates because you're on two or more lists, set up a > similar filter, but only for one of the accounts, that way half of all > duplicates get deleted. > > It takes all of a minute and a half to set up, and problem solved. > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
