Re: Mailing list and Gcc header in nnimap groups

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@northernlight.com> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Well, Kai's previous suggestion of using the MFT stuff should work
>> then.  Have a hook function called during sending that checks for
>> subscribed list addresses in To+Cc, and set Gcc accordingly.  Is there
>> any send-time hook that gets called before Gcc is processed?
>
> I'll try that suggestion if deleting known articles is not workable.

Setting Gcc intelligently is better: before the extra copies even
exist, it identifies them accurately and "deletes" them.  We avoid the
work of saving an extra copy and of comparing potential duplicates.

> What about people that send a private reply and a reply to the list as
> well?

We put Mail-Followup-To in our outgoing message to instruct them not
to do that.

> Junking duplicate message IDs would solve that in a way that
> *I* find acceptable :)  Or am I wrong to want to delete duplicate
> messages in general?

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paul