[ietf-dkim] Admilistrivia question

[Jim Fenton]

I'm wondering if you are seeing the 'nodupes' behavior of mailman, 
brought up by Keith Moore on the IETF discussion list in August.  See: 
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg37128.html

-Jim

william(at)elan.net wrote:

>
> I noticed that when I receive replies to the posts made on this list,
> they come directly from whoever replied, but I seem to not receive
> typical extra copy from the email from mail list itself. Is this true
> of how this list is configured?
>
> If this is so does mail list determine it based on my address being 
> present in "To" and "CC" header fields? If so does that not seem like
> some small breaking of mail system because mail list is here making 
> determination on if I already received a copy of the post based on 
> RFC2822 header data - where as actual addressing is done with RFC2821
> RCPT TO parameters of the sender, which mail list does not know and so
> can not 100% guarantee that I  really did the receive the email post.
>
> This system slightly bothers me and I'm not sure it is appropriate
> configuration to keep, especially if this were to become IETF WG list.
> Reason is that we're here from all different places with various email
> accept policies for other places and this opens up possibility that 
> some people might not for receive email sent to them and to the list 
> i.e. for
> example its possible that some of us are blocking for whatever reason 
> (blacklisting based on what country for example) somebody else on this
> list - where as we all do make certain that we can receive email 
> directly from the mail list.
>
> So even if it does mean duplication of messages in my mailbox (which
> I already know how to deal with if it becomes a problem for some list)
> it would still be better then decisions of the list to not send email
> if to be recipient is already in CC or TO.
>