Re: Laptop dead, suggestions?

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > What are the tricks I missed?
> 
> 
> Why, WHY, oh *WHY*, do people change a post to the 'freebsd-foo' mailing list
> into _double_ posts to both 'freebsd-foo@freebsd' and 'foo@freebsd', which
> are the same thing ???  Warner's original post did not post to both names,
> so somebody who replied must've started the replication.  This happens so
> often it is annoying, and I finally decided to complain so that maybe people
> will stop this practice.  (and it doesn't help when the 'old-timers' on these
> lists, who should know better, blindly reply-all and keep up the replicated
> messages... ;-) )

there are some mail readers that are stupid that don't provide a nice
clicky button to turn off their braindamanged behavior.  They grab the
X-Mail-List header, and use that in coming up with their reply.  Once
the messages are inserted into the list, others reply and compound the
problem.  I think Mutt was mentioned as being the problem.

It is a well known problem, but the technical solution is kinda hard.
Especially since the authors of the mail software are being difficult
and not providing an override for this brain-damanged and wrong
behavior.

Warner
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