On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:29:41 -0700 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:28:11AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > On 2004-08-09, Brian Nelson penned: > > > > > > Unfortunately, those headers are not specified in the relevant > > > RFCs and are not in wide use outside of Linux and other highly > > > technical mailing lists. Support for MFT and MCT headers is > > > strictly optional, so many mail client authors/vendors simply > > > choose not to support them. > > > > Yup. I realize this. I'm just so frustrated. If I request no cc's > > in my sig, I get tons of mail telling me that I should use the > > headers instead. If I use the headers, I get cc'd. Actually, I got > > cc'd even with the request right there in the bloody sig. (I seem > > to use british cursewords when frustrated online; don't ask me why.) > > And I do > > understand why this bogus reply-to is not the best solution, but I > > figure that it might get the message across. And I guess I figure > > that folks who know enough to help me with my questions probably use > > clients that respect the headers and handle the reply-to properly, > > although I could of course be wrong and yes, it's awfully heavy > > handed and rather self-serving at the expense of the other list > > members. > > > > I guess the socially responsible thing to do is, what -- just put up > > with dupes? I guess it's not such a big deal, but it irritates me > > all out of proportion to the incidents. > > For procmail: > > # Duplicate message filtering > > #Turns ON or OFF filtering of exact message duplicates. > DOUBLEMESSAGESFILTER=ON > > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > * DOUBLEMESSAGESFILTER ?? ^^ON^^ > | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache > > # END Duplicate message filtering lol... Poor Monique. I think you've set a record on this list for how many people have posted the same "non-answer" to your problem. I guess the good thing is it shouldn't be hard for future googlers to find a procmail recipe for getting rid of duplicate e-mails. Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #20: Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates.
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