OT: E-mail (was Re: Two for the road, ...)

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>You'll never BELIEVE what Kenneth Brody said here...:
>> 
>> But such e-mails would still show a "to" and a "cc", with the "cc" of
>> the list (as is this e-mail).  Unless your e-mail client is broken, and
>> sends two separate messages, that is.
>
>Well they'll both show both the Cc and To headers, but it -does- generate
>two individually routed copies.
>
>I like mutt in this regard, as say...when Ken replies, if it's to me I see
>a T on both, meaning it's to me as well as some(one|place) else, and by the
>line lengths in the index I can just pick one of the two copies to delete
>and read the other.  The line counts will really never differ by more than
>a few lines, and it's quite easy to match up the relative sizes even if
>there are four or five such pairings in a single sitting, which is rare.

I love mutt's ``L'' to reply to the list so only one copy goes out.  I've
never seen any reason to reply to the list, and to the sender unless that
person isn't a subscriber.

>I know JPR has a Message-ID tracker he hooked into deliver, and I know how
>to do it, but have never felt sufficiently annoyed enough to take the 15min
>to bother writing and debugging it.  My mail configuration is complex
>enough as it is -anyway-.  I need to add another phase to it like a hole in
>the head.  I'd -prefer- the hole in the head--it might do something about
>these sinus problems.  :) ^ 32

I do a similar thing with deliver and message-id headers, putting
duplicates in a separate mail folder.  Contradicting what I said above, I
will often see mailing list traffic copied to me faster in the duplicates
folder than in the bulk mail folder where I send all mailing list traffic.

Bill
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