Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 15 Oct 2000:
> Now, this works nicely most of the time but I find that about 50% of
> postings from mutt-users are coming directly from the authors rather than
> from the list. I suspect that this is to do with how long the list takes
> to turn around a message and so I'm receiving the post from the author
> before I get it from the list.
Actually, you're much more likely to get the copy sent to you directly
first, before the list copy. This is because the list server, even if
it's quick, can't hope to send the few hundred (or thousand) copies of
emails to everyone faster than a single email gets to you.
> Anyone come across this problem before (I
> know it's more procmail related than mutt related but us mutterers should
> be familiar with procmail too! :-).
Yes, I've run into this problem too. I don't currently do duplicate
filtering, but when I did I remember it being sort of a pain.
> Anyway, shouldn't all of us be using the "L" key to reply to the list
> rather than reply to all, thereby eliminating this problem in the first
> place??!!
Well, in fact everyone should be using Mutt, with $followup_to set,
$honor_followup_to set to "yes", and then it doesn't matter whether
the person doing a reply uses L or g... As long as they're using
Mutt. :-)
Mikko
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