On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:41:41 +0200 > Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> > In the name of all that's good and decent in the world, why on earth >> > would you do that when replying to a mailing list??? They're already >> > getting a reply. Sending them TWO identical replies is just rude. >> >> Mailman is intelligent enough not to send a second copy in that case. >> This message was sent with a CC, and you got only one copy. > > Actually, no. Mailman is not your MTA. It only gets the email sent to > the mailing list. Your MTA sends the other one directly so Steve is > correct. He gets two copies. If his client doesn't suppress the > duplicate then he will be presented with both.
The source code seems to think otherwise: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/view/head:/src/mailman/handlers/avoid_duplicates.py On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Wrong. I got two copies. One via comp.lang.python, and one direct to me. You are subscribed through Usenet and not <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, in which case the above doesn’t apply, because Mailman throws the mail to Usenet and not you personally. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
