double posts

From: Ratman <rat_at_rat.org>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 07:51:18 -0400 (EDT)

I recently made it so the list says it's from lists.mv.net.
However, in doing this it prevents it from being able to detect that it's
the same addess as listname_at_bort.mv.net, so if somone makes a post like
this:

to: listname_at_lists.mv.net
cc: listname_at_bort.mv.net

it will post it twice!!

So please, if you reply to a post, and it puts both of those addresses,
delete the "bort" one, ok? Otherwise it will annoy us all to no end. ;)

This will not be a problem once people stop using the bort address for
posts. The reason this happens, is because if someone posts to
listname_at_bort.mv.net, it will send it to the list as "to:
listname_at_bort.mv.net" and "reply-to: listname_at_lists.mv.net" and mail
programs will see that and try to write to both addresses.
If you don't understand that, don't worry about it, just make sure you're
not writing to both addresses in your mail program.


Received on Sat May 25 1996 - 20:48:35 PDT