From: Steven Lumos Date: 2006-06-18T13:27:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Why do my posts appear twice? "Austin Ziegler" writes: > On 6/15/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: >> In message "Re: Why do my posts appear twice?" >> on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:40:25 +0900, "Greg Donald" >> writes: >> |> It's a Gmail glitch. >> |No, it's a ruby-talk glitch. Otherwise I would see the same issue >> |with other lists. >> This is interesting. The mechanism of duplicated messages is as >> explained in [ruby-talk:197553]. I do want to know how other lists >> avoid this problem. Regretting messages to the posters is just no >> way. I have ever heard that setting up skip filters for author copied >> messages to ruby-talk might work. But I am not sure if filters on >> Gmail work for author copies. > > Okay. I've done some further looking at this. This is *not* a > ruby-talk problem in any way. Ruby-talk does behave a little > differently than most other mailing lists, and part of it is what you > illustrated in your message above ([ruby-talk:197553]). ruby-talk adds > a few extra headers that most mailing lists do not. This gives Gmail > the impression that it is a wholly separate message and therefore it > doesn't suppress it (or better, suppress your *sent* copy) on receipt. > > This is something that the Gmail team needs to fix; they know the > message-id that they used when sending the message; they should know > that a message that matches in every way except headers should *also* > be the same and therefore should suppress your sent message in favour > of the (marked up) message from the mailing list. So has anyone bothered to take the single potentially constructive step of reporting it to the Gmail team? Steve > But I have *always* had both my sent copy and my received copy > regardless of the MUA that I've used. It's just that most MUAs don't > copy the sent message to the originating folder. > > -austin > -- > Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ > * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ > * austin@zieglers.ca