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Subject: Re: possible bug in 1.9.4
From: Rich Pieri <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Date: 24 Jun 1998 10:43:04 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: "Roger B.A. Klorese"'s message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:11:44 -0700 (PDT)"
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Roger B A Klorese writes:

> Then:
> - you must have lucked out in not having users on braindead corporate mail
>   servers that send bounces and errors to the Reply-To address

Notably Microsoft Mail (as far from RFCs as you can get and still pretend
to care), Lotus cc:Mail (which does not even pretend to care), and a few
others.

> - more important, you must have had a miracle.  How does forcing users to
>   reply to the list "prevent duplicates"?  Yes, it keeps the people
>   involved in a discussion from getting extra copies because of neglecting
>   to trim the headers... but that's a pesty inconvenience.

And any halfways decent mail filtering scheme can "suppress" duplicates
based on Message-ID strings.

>   You've also made it MUCH more difficult for your users to save
>   bandwidth by replying only to the originator, turning your list into
>   only an all-to-all jabber.

Just wait until your first flame war starts because someone was forced to
send his invective to the list at large.

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-- 
Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> / Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid
Sysmonster, Unix Wrangler                / core, which, if exposed due to
Prescient Technologies, Inc.            / rupture, should not be touched,
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC    / inhaled, or looked at.



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