From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T23:31:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] gmail double-msg from myself ?

On 10/20/05, Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> So why does it only happen on these two lists?

Some/many mailing lists are setup such that the post is not copied to
the author, e.g.

while post = list.listener.next_post
  list.subscribers.each do |subscriber|
    list.send( subscriber, post ) unless
      post.author == subscriber
  end
end

Obviously a very naive and inefficient implementation, but should give
the idea. Ruby-* doesn't have the "unless". My guess is there's a good
reason for this (maybe something to do with the newsgroup/list
gateway?). But that should explain why the gmail behavior doesn't
appear consistent across lists.

Jacob Fugal