Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2077] Cow, clients, vanilla, confused

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 04:20:24PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Quoting James Cameron (cameron@stl.dec.com):
> > Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > Do you want cow@netrek.org to be sent to vanilla-clients@us.netrek.org
> > > to be distributed to all subscribers to the vanilla-clients mailing
> > > list?
> > 
> > I think that's what he means, but with the Reply-To and To header fields
> > saying cow@netrek.org.
> > 
> 
> I can do that, but what about the other client developers who are
> using vanilla-clients for their mailing list too?

Two scenarios:

Three lists for cow-dev, tedturner-dev, vanilla-clients.  Mail sent to
the specific client lists don't get propogated to vanilla-clients, but
mail sent to vanilla-clients get propogated to the specific client lists.
Downside: if you subscribe to more than 1 client list, you can get
multiple copies if a message is sent to vanilla-clients.

Use one list with aliases and auto prefixing depending on the To: field.
For example, mail sent to vanilla-clients would get prefix "[CLIENT-DEV]",
mail sent to cow-dev would get prefix "[COW-DEV]" and mail sent to
tedturner-dev would get prefix "[TT-DEV]" but would propage to the same
list.  That way, we can ignore/filter whatever we want to.

It's really arbitrary what you do.  Pick one (or something else) and go
with it!

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