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Re: IRC bots...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Mar 22 16:31:38 2005

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:30:39 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG Posting List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503210930060.30763@bacchus.billn.net>; from Bill Nash <billn@billn.net> on Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:31:35AM -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:31:35AM -0800, Bill Nash wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Alan Sparks wrote:
> > Am I the only one who is getting mailbombed by dozens of these duplicate
> > messages?
> 
> Could have something to do with folks not trimming conversation 
> participants from the TO: fields.

Or, more closely, with people whose mailers don't support "reply to
list" (or it's first cousin: "reply to recipient"), and therefore have
to use 'G'roup reply to answer list mail.

Cheers,
-- jr "let us take the obligatory munging thread off-list, 'k?" a
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