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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Not sending group mailings to one's self
Message-ID: <1991May18.221832.8321@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 May 91 22:18:32 GMT
References: <1991May17.113230.29299@cs.dal.ca>
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silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) wrote <1991May17.113230.29299@cs.dal.ca>
in comp.mail.elm, in which he said the following, but I've interchanged the
paragraphs:

| I maintain several groups in our system alias file, but we all find it
| annoying to send mail to our fellow group members and immediately
| get beeped by newmail.  It would be best to set this as an option.
| If it is not already somewhere within elm, could it be added in 2.4?

Perhaps you can leave elm alone and change newmail so that it doesn't beep
you when mail comes in from you yourself.  That way ...

| Can one avoid sending mail to one's self when mailing to members of a
| group?  I've looked over aliaslib.c and it looks fairly easy to
| implement, but before hacking the code (and making my own life harder
| when updates arrive) I thought I would ask.

... you wouldn't have to alter every update to elm.

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