a plea

[Matthew Flaschen]

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> The geek approach is of course to add a simple procmail rule on our mail
> servers:
> 
>  # Remove duplicates
> :0 Whc: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache
> :0 a:
> duplicates
> 
> No more duplicates.  This needs to be done on the receiving server.  It
> can't be done by the list server since the list server only sends one
> copy.

It can't be done with that rule on the list server.  But it certainly
can be done (and /is/, optionally by GNU Mailman).  The list simply
doesn't email out a copy to those in the To header.

Matt Flaschen