From: Brendan Coffey <bmc@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T08:30:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do my posts appear twice?

Greg Donald wrote:

> I will proceed to post as long as it suits me.  I have not done
> anything more than participate in a valid technical discussion about
> ruby-talk list serve settings.  I'm not even the original poster.

No, you're just the one making an ass of himself in public.

> I
> am merely describing a behavior I see with a very popular email
> service and mail client.  If that bothers you then procmail yourself a
> filter out of my world.

Done.  *plonk*

> If it makes people complain more than a couple of times then it's a
> bad default setting.

False.

> It doesn't matter that people can change it,
> multiple questions/complaints should have already made it evident a
> change was needed.

Changing the setting will produce complaints, as well.

> If the server admins disagree then they are only
> going to hear more questions and complaints ongoing.

The server admins will hear complaints ongoing, regardless.  It's one of 
the hazards of being a mailing list administrator.

-bmc