On 2013-06-15 03:09, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 15Jun2013 10:42, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
| "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> writes:
| Even for those who do participate by email, though, your approach is
| broken:
| > My answer is simple. Get a proper email system that filters out
| > duplicates.
|
| The message sent to the individual typically arrives earlier (since it
| is sent straight from you to the individual), and the message on the
| forum arrives later (since it typically requires more processing).
|
| But since we're participating in the discussion on the forum and not in
| individual email, it is the later one we want, and the earlier one
| should be deleted.
They're the same message! (Delivered twice.) Replying to either is equivalent.
So broadly I don't care which gets deleted; it works regardless.
| So at the point the first message arrives, it isn't a duplicate. The
| mail program will show it anyway, because “remove duplicates” can't
| catch it when there's no duplicate yet.
But it can when the second one arrives. This is true regardless of
the delivery order.
Ben said that he doesn't use email for this list. Neither do I. We use one of
the newsgroup mirrors. If you Cc us, we will get a reply on the newsgroup (where
we want it) and a reply in our email (where we don't). The two systems cannot
talk to each other to delete the other message.
| You do this by using your mail client's “reply to list” function, which
| uses the RFC 3696 information in every mailing list message.
No need, but a valid option.
| Is there any mail client which doesn't have this function? If so, use
| your vendor's bug reporting system to request this feature as standard,
| and/or switch to a better mail client until they fix that.
Sorry, I could have sworn you said you weren't using a mail client for this...
He's suggesting that *you* who are using a mail reader to use the "reply to
list" functionality or request it if it is not present.
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