Don't feed the troll...

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:09:37 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:25:21 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
>>> The source code seems to think otherwise:
>>
>> Mailman is not the only mailing list software in the world, and the
>> feature you are referring to is optional.
>>
>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/view/head:/
src/
>> mailman/handlers/avoid_duplicates.py
> 
> Mailman is the software that runs python-list at python.org, so this *is*
> applicable to everyone who reads the mailing list (including myself).
> The fact that there's other mailing list software isn't significant;

I'm not making an argument about CCing the sender on specifically this 
list, I'm making a general observations about list etiquette in general.



-- 
Steven