Re: Please don't email me and cc the list

[Kurt Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>]

Rebecca Ore wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Kurt Starsinic wrote:
> > Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> And like other messages, I got two copies of it.  I filter *all* cc'ed
> to list, to the list, or remailed by the list to the list mailbox and
> this just means that I get two copies in the list mail box.  I don't
> particularly mind mail to me only, but would prefer that people learn
> how to set up programs and filters that allow responses to the list
> without the unnecessary duplications.

    In the future, I'll try to be considerate of your preference.

> Procmail and mutt are excellent for this.  I would probably not be on as
> many mailing lists as I am without it.

    I agree that they're excellent.  You might want to add the following lines
to your .procmailrc:

:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| /usr/local/bin/formail -D 8192 $HOME/.msgid.cache

    Then you'll never again see duplicate messages.

> If anyone needs help setting up procmail, don't use the latest RedHat
> rpm for that either.

    Peace,
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