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Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 11 15:40:09 2004

To: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:52:40 PDT."
             <20040611102446.G30135@sprockets.gibbard.org> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:39:49 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:52:40 PDT, Steve Gibbard said:

> As an occasional poster to this and other lists, I sometimes get a few
> duplicate replies, which, being sent directly to me, end up in my regular
> mailbox instead of my NANOG folder, and thus require me to actively delete
> or sort through them.  As an occasional issue, it seems like a natural
> result of sending out a message to a few thousand people.  Not being all
> that important I often find it hard to believe that a few thousand people
> will want to read what I have to say, so I don't do it all that often.

Much more annoying are borked Out-of-Brain responders that annoy you when
you post to a list because they don't understand the concept of a list.

What's really sad is when an Out-of-Brain responder manages to trigger
my procmail duplicate detector.. ;)

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