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Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Wed Mar 12 12:45:25 2003

From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:44:05 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Thus spake "JC Dill" <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
> p.s.  Please don't cc me on replies, or on replies to replies, etc.  I
> get the list email just fine and I don't need more than one copy of any
> given email.  Really.

1)  nanog can sometimes take hours to forward posts to all members
2)  the people directly involved in the thread reasonably expect to get
responses immediately
3)  seeing your name in the To/Cc line may attach greater importance to the
message
4)  duplicates can be automatically blocked by procmail with:
:0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock
| formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache

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