Patrick Bogen wrote:
On 5/19/06, Imre Gergely <imre.gergely@astral.ro> wrote:
but the other members of the list do get the mail. they should see in the Cc: that one person, who didn't get it because of above condition. or am i wrong here?
I don't know about 'should,' but this is NOT what happens. As Mark explains, the AvoidDups mechanism will drop from the CC any users which (a) were originally listed in the CC, and (b) are list members. So, the only people in the CC should be users for which (a) is true and (b) is FALSE.
Actually, the (b) condition is a bit more restrictive - they have to be a candidate to receive this post from the list. I.e., they have to be a non-digest list member with delivery enabled and not the poster if the poster has DontReceiveOwnPosts set, and they have to meet the topic filter criteria for this post if any.
But that is the way it does work. The real question is if that is the way it 'should' work. I tend to agree with Imre that removing the address is wrong, but I can see arguments on both sides. For example, one reason I care, is I 'reply all' to posts, and I like to see all the past posters in a thread in To: or Cc:. I think this is good because it keeps digest members who have posted to a thread current on the thread, but current behavior doesn't remove a digest member - it only removes a message member, so maybe it's good to reduce clutter.
The thing I really dislike about the current behavior is it is inconsistent. It removes from Cc: but not from To:.
I'm going to try to find out if anyone remembers why it is this way in the first place, and if it should be continued.
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