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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: group reply includes sender
Message-ID: <312@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 89 02:32:18 GMT
References: <290@wubios.wustl.edu> <937@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <4691@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: david@wubios.UUCP (David J. Camp)
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In: article <4691@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> you write:
:>In article <937@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
:>+From article <290@wubios.wustl.edu>, by david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp):
:>+> When I di a group reply, my own address is included in the Cc: list.
:>+> Unix mail is smart enough to prevent this, elm should too.
:>+> 
:>+This is really a religious issue. I have taught introductory unix courses
:>+at my site, and people always WANT to be included in the list, even if they
:>+send it out.
:>
:>Actually ELM is advertized as removing the user from the to  and cc lists
:>of the original message when doing a group reply. I haven't investigated
:>this bug,  but I suspect ELM might be having a hard time telling if
:>an address is to the user or not - it would involve a great deal of parsing
:>and understanding of all manner of address formats.
:>-- 

It seems reasonable that if you want a copy of outgoing mail, to enable
the savemail= option.  That makes it unnecessary to address mail to
yourself, because you are keeping a copy anyway.
-David-
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