From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaXus-0006wh-St for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:03:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25D24E05BE; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF5BE05BE for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so1057160ana.47 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.44.4 with SMTP id r4mr26318937anr.77.1205593400225; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [68.44.91.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d19sm27702410and.6.2008.03.15.08.03.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47DBE535.5060102@xaerolimit.net> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:03:17 -0400 From: Chris Brennan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080313) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions References: <3D69B4A7-2EFE-4DD3-B2E0-43A02D42EA05@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200803151631.53714.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200803151604.28756.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <200803151650.51347.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200803151650.51347.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 76cee51e-fac5-4308-b82b-69a4444f8956 X-Archives-Hash: 55690dcd3ad712d414692f1d667f5e8c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | 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. | | So do the lists at gentoo provide such an option? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH2+U18hUIAnGfls4RAsulAJ9P7Bf3ec5/B92373CLaQvHTWCysgCfWPCH rhB4aelLVyBWNH5jqr07bS8= =yXbQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list