On Thu, Jan 15, 2004, Matan Ziv-Av wrote about "[META] list aliases":
> The list has (at least) three aliases [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that the only
> use for those is to make people who don't check the To and Cc headers
> before they send post double messages to the list (see the current
> [JOB... thread).
>
> Can the people in charge please decide on one address, and make the
> others do something more sensible than forwarding to the list?
A better solution to this problem (which frankly, is not a big problem -
do you remember it ever happened before?) is for the mailing list manager
software to keep a record of Message-Ids: that have been distributed, and
ignore a message if it's not the first time this Message-Id was seen.
This will also solve the mail loop problem that plagues this list about
once a year.
You can do what I just said with something like
formail -D 10240 msgid.cache
(how to integrate this with whatever mailing list software is used, is
another question).
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