Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0200
> >
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote:
> > > > Dale wrote:
> > > > | Chris Brennan wrote:
> > > > |> How come I don't see my own posts to this list?
> > > > |
> > > > | We got this one.  I saw one other one too.
> > > > | Dale
> > > > |
> > > > | :-)  :-)
> > > >
> > > > Ya but you didn't answer my question :D
> > >
> > > 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.
> 


I don't think so. The ML software sends (bounces) every message to all
subscribers (except those who had chosen the "no-mail" option). It is up
to the subscribers' server or client to decide what to do with a given
message when/if they catch this message has already been there.

Anyone, please, correct me if I'm wrong.

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