Re: Mailing list reply addresses [was: OS X 10.4 compilation results]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:04:11PM -0400, David James wrote:
> Personally, I prefer to get a copy of the reply. Since I don't read
> every mail on the list, it's handy to have my name in the email
> headers so I'll know to take a look. And the other problems mentioned
> (e.g. slow downloads, duplicate copies of emails) don't happen with
> gmail!

I completely understand this... and actually I have a filter that eats
the duplicates. However, my mail server still receives two copies of
the message. Mail server load is bad enough with all the spam and
viruses floating around. The benefit of having my name on the header
doesn't really justify itself when I have to consider the overhead of
processing such a large message.

Ideally the solution is to not send such large messages without being
asked to send them.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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