double posting (was: NUMA)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:25:44 -0500
David Hummel <dhml at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > 
> > Please do not double post. When you post both to the sender of the
> > message to which you are replying and to the list, the recipients
will
> > get 2 copies of the message each.
> > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
> 
> Double posting is not a problem if the following option:
> 
>   Avoid duplicate copies of messages?
> 
> is set to "Yes" here:
> 
>   http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/options/discuss
> 
> And it apparently is by default.
> 
> Otherwise, there is always the "delete" function of your MUA.
No, this is not going to do it. 
When you put discuss at blu.org and David Hummel <dhml at comcast.net>, both
discuss and David will get the email. The listserv only sees one copy of
the message, but David will get 2 copies, and at different times. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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