Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the
> > > > same address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour
> > > > for any list run by a non-idiot (like this one)
> > >
> > > Is that so? Then will you, please, explain how do people get
> > > their original messages back?
> >
> > There's a copy already in their outbox? And a sane mailer (like say
> > kmail) will have put the sent copy there already.
>
> What does this have to do with what the list server does?

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

Sometimes the user does want a copy of the post to come back as a 
verification that the message was indeed fully processed by the list 
server. That would be an issue between the user and the list admin.


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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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