Hopeless cause

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, February 15, 2010 20:19, Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:05:11 -0500, James Montgomery wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> I would hope they weren't CC'ing the enitre thread every message. It's
>> customary to respond to a specific question in that fashion. Eg:
>>
>> User A Posts: $PROBLEM
>>
>> User B Replies directly to User A and CC the list (for archival
>> purposes)
>>
>> Solved.
>>
>> J.M.
>
> This might be customary for lists you are on, but for all the lists I'm
> on it is customary to reply to the list and never directly to a user. I
> would hate it if people would do that, keeping posts from a list within
> that lists helps me keep my mail organized. If I would get a direct reply
> I usually would just delete it and in some cases would take the trouble
> to check if the mail was also send to the list, but it is very likely you
> will not get any reply from me to a direct mail not send to the list.

Add this to your .procmailrc:

#From the manpages: prevent duplicate mails
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache


I have also added this:
:0f
* ^(List-Id|To|Cc):.*ubuntu-users at lists\.ubuntu\.com
| /usr/bin/formail -bfi "List-Post: <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>"

Perhaps I could add another rule that adds the List-Post header based on
the automagically added footer. But I haven't got any false positives so
far, so I don't bother.

-- 
Amedee