On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Keith Moore wrote:
MFT doesn't solve the duplicates problem,
It would for me. (In the case of discussion lists like this.)
I know you have stated that duplicates should be eliminated at the
receiving end. However, this does not work for people like myself, who,
when somebody like yourself replies both to ietf-882 AND to me, want to
get and keep only the LIST copy of the message, not the personal copy.
The point is that these two messages are *not* duplicates. One goes
direct and the other goes via the list explosion process and thereby
gets extra headers added, etc, etc.
I don't want the personal copy. I only want the list copy. Writing logic
to implement this at my end is not straightforward, since the messages
may arrive in either order and possibly one will be delayed.
I want to be able to encode somewhere in the message the equivalent of
"Please don't send me a personal copy when you reply to the list. It
wastes net bandwidth and my time."
IMHO the thing to do is to try to build better interfaces and encourage
people to try them out.
I understand that people are already "trying out" MFT...
Philip
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