Scott Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 February 1999 at 18:46:24 -0500
> Fact: SMTP does not guarantee that you won't see two copies of any
> given message. We all know this, right? It's come up again and again,
> and the fair comment is always that anyone who cares about that problem
> will have their MTA set up to deal with it.
>
> Irony: what's the point of complaining if your name appears twice
> (perhaps indirectly) in the headers, when you simply cannot avoid
> seeing some messages twice, for *whatever* reason? So deal with it
> quietly.
Well, frequency is relevant. The SMTP duplications don't happen very
often; I've never seen one that I can be sure of. Whereas the direct
copy of mail that also went to a list I'm on I see every day.
I'm using the formail message-id cache to filter these, myself.
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