[Mailman-Users] Feature questions

[Ted Cabeen]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.10003221153241.9345-100000 at archer.kd-dev.com>, Derek 
Simkowiak writes:
>> >	What he would like is an MLM that can do a union of subscribers
>> >based on the "To: " field of the email message.
>> Duplicate elimination is really a problem that should be solved at the user
>> end, not at the server end.
>	Why?  One could just as easily state that maintaining recipient
>lists is a problem that should be solved at the user end, not the server
>end.

Because you have no idea what people are doing with the mail.  Someone could 
have subscribed an exploder list to yours and someone could get two copies 
that way.  Once a mail has left your list server, anything could happen to 
it.  If a user then didn't want to get a mail twice, they would prevent it 
from happening.  It's also possible that someone is using the number of times 
they get a mail as a measure of it's importance.  By eliminating this option, 
you remove another feature that someone might be using.  

I'm not trying to say that doing duplicate address checking is a bad thing, I 
just feel that it's not something that should be included in mailman itself.  
If you need it, feel free to modify mailman to do it.  I just would prefer 
that we not continue to clutter the Mailman admin interface with this 
particular option.

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