Re: double posts

From: Dan <dflinn_at_bcoe.butte.k12.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 15:21:27 -0700

At 07:51 AM 5/25/96 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
Heh heh. Sure thing, Ratman!

        -Chris


Received on Tue May 28 1996 - 18:30:07 PDT