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From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:13:34
Message-Id: 20080315171326.6cf1a91d@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0200
2 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote:
5 > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0200
6 > >
7 > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > > > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote:
9 > > > > Dale wrote:
10 > > > > | Chris Brennan wrote:
11 > > > > |> How come I don't see my own posts to this list?
12 > > > > |
13 > > > > | We got this one. I saw one other one too.
14 > > > > | Dale
15 > > > > |
16 > > > > | :-) :-)
17 > > > >
18 > > > > Ya but you didn't answer my question :D
19 > > >
20 > > > The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the same
21 > > > address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour for any
22 > > > list run by a non-idiot (like this one)
23 > >
24 > > Is that so? Then will you, please, explain how do people get their
25 > > original messages back?
26 >
27 > There's a copy already in their outbox? And a sane mailer (like say
28 > kmail) will have put the sent copy there already.
29 >
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32 I don't think so. The ML software sends (bounces) every message to all
33 subscribers (except those who had chosen the "no-mail" option). It is up
34 to the subscribers' server or client to decide what to do with a given
35 message when/if they catch this message has already been there.
36
37 Anyone, please, correct me if I'm wrong.
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