[PD] [OT] pd-announce vs pd-list (was Re: Cyclone 0.3 beta 2 released)

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 21:38:10 CEST 2017


I meant to only send it to pd-announce, but then I sent to the pd-list
instead, so I just re sent it to pd-announce...

2017-06-19 16:18 GMT-03:00 Giulio Moro via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>:

> If they were to post to both lists at the same time, mailman should be
> clever enough to prevent sending duplicated messages to who subscribers
> that are in both lists?
> Or at least if mailman is not that clever, many mail clients would be able
> to detect the duplicate and show a single message. But if you send two
> distinct messages, this cannot be filtered out.
>
>
> Giulio
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "zmoelnig at iem.at" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Sent: Monday, 19 June 2017, 20:13
> Subject: [PD] [OT] pd-announce vs pd-list (was Re: Cyclone 0.3 beta 2
> released)
>
>
>
> as you might have noticed, all emails that you send to the pd-announce
> mailinglist will automatically get forwarded to pd-list as well.
> this is nothing new, it has been in action for more than 11 years [1]
> and has since been advertised on the pd-announce info page [2].
>
> the consequence of this behaviour is that if you send announcements to
> both pd-announce and pd-list, your announcement will be sent twice to
> the pd-list.
> i think this is a mild annoyance and i would welcome ideas on who to
> prevent people from accidentally doing this.
> (it seems to be common enough for people to post to both lists but never
> wonder why they receive duplicate announcements).
>
> gfadsmr
> IOhannes
>
>
> [1] https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-announce/2006-05/000939.html
>
> [2] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce
>
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