On Sun, Dec 17, 2000, Omer Zak wrote about "Triple Triplicates (was: Re: hebrew
lecture)":
> Since I am subscribed to both Linux-IL, IGLU and Ivrix mailing lists, I
> received the Hebrew Lecture Announcement (henceforth to be referred to as
> HLA (TM)) in triplicate.
>
> I also received subsequent discussion in triplicate. And I am sure that
> several people will receive this followup in triplicate.
>
> Any PRACTICAL ideas how to cut down this triplication?
Here's another message you'll be recieving 3 (or maybe even 4!) times :)
In my opinion this "triplication" isn't a terrible thing - each of the mailing
lists I subscribe to goes to a different folder, and the fact that a copy
of the same message goes to each of these folders is very helpful in keeping
a sensible message order when I read the folder of one mailing list.
But if you really want to cut this triplication to zero, you (or actually
the entire community) will need to choose one of two options:
1. Move all the discussion about *everything* to linux-il. This includes
Hebrew, Haifa Linux club, and everything.
2. Have seperate lists for seperate issues: send Hebrew stuff to
ivrix-discuss, Haifa-club stuff to that mailing list, and so on.
This solution is sort-of working right now, though some people seem
not to like it, and split the Hebrew discussions between linux-il
and ivrix-discuss (or crosspost to both).
Another solution to get rid of "triplication", a technological solution
(instead of the "sociological" solution above), is to use a procmail filter
to get rid of duplicate messages. The following solution is suggested in
the 'procmailex' manual (see that manual for other variants):
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 4096 $HOME/msgid.cache
:0 a:
duplicates
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