Re: [OT] Deduplication (was Re: Recovering from bad disk ...)

On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:

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> On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:35 AM, objectwerks inc wrote:
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>> Read what I just posted on why the list is set up the way it is.  It is purposefully set up to reply to each poster individually, and not the list.
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> Conjecture on your part.
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It is not conjecture on my part.  It was specifically said in this list by the omni rep several years ago when this question came up.  


> List-Post is not set to No, which would be consistent with "purposefully set up to reply to each poster". Instead it is set to an email address which is consistent with deferring to the email client what should occur by default. So Omni is actually taking a neutral position on the issue. Otherwise they would use No, which is exactly how the RFC reads.

List-Post is merely a header to tell you which address to send posts to.  It is not a mail header that has specific meaning to email clients to tell them how to respond.   It is an informational header only that specifies the posting address.  There is a whole raft of List-* headers which are informational.


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>> There is a reason for it, whether you agree with that reason or not.  You are not the list owner.
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> Nor are you. And what you are saying is speculative at best, and not supportable logically.

It is supported logically -- the list works exactly the way I described and it is supported by historical posts from the Omni list maintainers.

Chad


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