list-admin :: default to 'reply-to' the list ?

Ken Snider ksnider at flarn.com
Wed Nov 1 11:36:19 CST 2006


Daniel Silverman wrote:

> To eliminate duplicate messages, add something similar to this to your 
> .procmailrc (if you use one).  It has worked wonderfully for me at 
> eliminating this problem, and allowed me to think about more productive 
> things than forcing the listmaster on every list I subscribe to to 
> twiddle their settings just to make *my* life easier.
> 
> # Eliminate duplicate receives of the same message
> :0 Wh: .msgid.cache.lock
> | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache

This is the part that blows my mind - how may "workarounds" have been 
suggested to modify the default behaviour to perform as people want it to? 
This must be the third such response to my posts alone!

I mean, I know we're all admins by trade and our *job* is to come up with 
unique and specific solutions to problems, but holy crap! How many people 
have to work around this "feature" before the decision is made that, 
perhaps, it isn't so much of a "feature" after all? :)

-- 
Ken Snider



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