D. Wokan wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: > >> Hi All, >> Sorry for the noise... but a number of people have started sending to >> ${LIST}@gentoo.org, CCing to ${LIST}@lists.gentoo.org -- 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: > List-Help: > List-Unsubscribe: > List-Subscribe: > List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail ...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. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo- http://atomicl.berlios.de | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | +-------------------------------------------------------------+