Re: Posting to this list (handling duplicates)

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:40 +0200, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote:
>   I keep getting duplicates of messages because people address them  
> directly to me *and* the list. This is no big deal, just a bit  
> annoying, but it would be nice to have a common (and possibly more  
> restrictive) policy on this. Any suggestions?

I use the following procmail(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail )
rule to remove duplicates when I receive them:

#duplicates
:0 hW: msgid.lock 
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache

I expect the functionality can be implemented in other ways,
but that's how I do it.

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Received on Friday, 30 March 2007 13:48:52 UTC