Stuart Longland wrote:
Hi All, Sorry for the noise... but a number of people have started sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED], CCing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- resulting in duplicate emails being sent to this end.
If possible, can people kindly pick one, or the other -- and not both?
The problem is in the lack of standardization between mailing lists. I've gotten used to just hitting reply-all instead of just reply because a number of lists I'm on don't set the reply-to header like the Gentoo lists do. The first time I saw the too addresses in my recipients, I thought maybe one was some kind of backup list system, but then I saw my reply double-posted.
Agreed. Most do set the List-ID header -- looking at your email headers here -- I see the following...
List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org>
...and some email clients (KMail comes to mind) are even able to directly use this information. Some for instance provide Unsubscribe and Reply-To-Post buttons. Unfortunately Thunderbird (the mail client I use most of the time) doesn't have these features.
(I'm tempted to do some maildrop/xfilter/perl magic to emulate these features though)
I'll try to keep an eye on what's going on in each list that I reply to, but I don't think this is really going to be solved until someone hammers an RFC on it down the Internet's throat. (But even that may not be enough. After all, Outlook Express never did use dash, dash, space to start a signature.)
Knowing Microsoft... they'll probably implement the bits they like... tack on their own extensions and completely ignore the rest of it. (Embrace, Extend & Break) Which is unfortunate for its users.
However, so long as we don't completely break those clients (i.e. it's still usable) then all should be fine.
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