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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:20:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803151620.01454.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803151650.51347.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> OK, lets go back to step 1, and try to think it through this time.
>
> - a user sends a mail from account X to list Y
> - same user is also subscribed to list Y from account X
> - if list Y sends a copy of the mail to the user at account X, then
> the user has a duplicate because by definition *he already has the
> original*
> - it is completely reasonable to give the list admin the option to
> enable or disable this behaviour

Agreed. However, Gentoo lists do send back the messages to the senders, 
and this is unrelated to the broken way gmail handles list messages.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-15 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-15  9:33 [gentoo-user] Can't mount NTFS read-write Stroller
2008-03-15  9:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-15 10:00   ` Stroller
2008-03-15 10:40   ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-15 11:54     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-15 12:52 ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 12:53 ` [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 13:08   ` Dale
2008-03-15 13:15     ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 13:24       ` Dale
2008-03-15 13:39         ` Ric de France
2008-03-15 13:35       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-15 13:45         ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 13:45         ` Gustavo Campos
2008-03-15 14:29         ` Daniel Iliev
2008-03-15 14:31           ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-15 14:53             ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-15 15:04             ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-15 14:50               ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-15 15:03                 ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 15:08                 ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 15:20                 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
2008-03-15 17:12                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-15 17:36                   ` Dale
2008-03-15 15:13             ` Daniel Iliev
2008-03-15 21:59             ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-15 14:53         ` Alan Milnes
2008-03-15 17:14           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-15 15:29         ` Markus Schönhaber
2008-03-15 18:49         ` Stroller
2008-03-15 13:27   ` Norberto Bensa
2008-03-15 13:44     ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-15 17:15       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-15 18:57     ` Stroller
2008-03-15 14:20   ` Daniel Iliev

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