[Mailman-Developers] Patching qrunner to never send duplicates w/ same Message-ID

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:35:28PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> writes:
> 
>     JRA> You *tell* mutt which To: addresses are lists, and then you
>     JRA> can use the 'L' key to reply to the list, or the traditional
>     JRA> 'r' key to reply only to the sender.
> 
> Yes, but what happens when a non-member posts to a list?  They won't
> see your response.

Correct, but
1) That's too bad :-)
2) Many lists don't let non subscribers post anymore. That's actually slowly
   becoming the norm
3) If you can post to a list you're not a member of, you are expected to add
   a line at the top asking to be Cced because you don't receive the list.

While we  are on this topic,  I would really love  for a way for  mailman to
optionally parse  the Cc and To  lines and not  send a post to  a subscribed
address if that address was already in the headers.
The idea is that  I'm stuck with a list that has  the evil reply-to munging,
and the subscribers refuse to have the reply-to munging removed because they
can't bear the fact  of receiving two copies of posts when  they are Cced in
an answer (no, they can't use procmail to weed duplicate msg-ids)
As evil as it is, reply-to munging  does kind of aleviate that problem (i.e.
reply to all usually only goes to To: Cc: and Reply-To:, not to From:)

I'm not sure how hard it would be for mailman to do that.

Marc
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