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Subject: Re: Removing duplicates
From: David L Miller <dlm @ cac . washington . edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 15:20:56 -0800 (PST)
To: tom_limoncelli @ Warren . MENTORG . COM
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9402022304.AA03199@worf.Warren.MENTORG.COM>

Tom,

We have been experimenting with a modified sendmail that traps messages 
with the same message-id addressed to the same person.  If you like, I 
can put you in touch with the author of those changes...

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    dlm@cac.washington.edu  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Wed, 2 Feb 1994 tom_limoncelli@Warren.MENTORG.COM wrote:

> If you mail to two majordomo mailing lists hosted on the same machine,
> and there is someone on both mailing lists, this someone will get two
> copies of the message.
> 
> I consider this behaviour correct.  They are on two mailing lists.  The
> user should learn to delete the extra copy.
> 
> However, my users consider this behaviour to be wrong.  They only want
> to get one copy of the message.  This has become such an issue,
> that management would rather abandon majordomo (and increase
> the amount of work the list managers have to do) than put up
> with the duplicate messages.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Tom
> P.S.  This isn't at the site that I run, but another site.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.org (play)
> "Psst!  Hey, Anthony!  Y'know what I        | Disclaimer:  I do not
> like about existing?"  "Uh... uh... what?"  | speak for Mentor Graphics.
> "Possessing a physical extension."  -TSA    |
> 


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