Hello all,
gmail'ers out there, I'm getting double-msgs from myself wehn I post
to this or rails mailing list.. any ideas ?
Thanks.
Peter Fitzgibbons
Peter,
It's NOT double posting.
Gmail shows you both your sent mail and received mail in one tree,
most people aren't used to that..
The first copy is when you "send" the mail. The second copy you see
is the copy of the message that is returned to you by the mailing
list.
If you look @ Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever other email client...
Look in your sent mail, you'll see one copy of the message, and in
your inbox, another ... it's the same thing.
j.
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On 10/18/05, Peter Fitzgibbons <peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
gmail'ers out there, I'm getting double-msgs from myself wehn I post
to this or rails mailing list.. any ideas ?Thanks.
Peter Fitzgibbons
--
"http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"
Jeff Wood
Peter,
It's NOT double posting.
Gmail shows you both your sent mail and received mail in one tree,
most people aren't used to that..The first copy is when you "send" the mail. The second copy you see
is the copy of the message that is returned to you by the mailing
list.If you look @ Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever other email client...
Look in your sent mail, you'll see one copy of the message, and in
your inbox, another ... it's the same thing.
Except that gmail didn't always do that. It used to hide the "sent"
copy of your message when the other copy appeared in your inbox. A few
weeks ago, it stopped doing that, and now shows both copies.
When I noticed that it hid the "sent mail" copy way back when, I
thought it was very cool, and wished my regular email app was as smart
as that.
cheers,
Mark
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On 10/18/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/05, Peter Fitzgibbons <peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> gmail'ers out there, I'm getting double-msgs from myself wehn I post
> to this or rails mailing list.. any ideas ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter Fitzgibbons
>
>--
"http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"Jeff Wood
So why does it only happen on these two lists?
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On 18/10/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,
It's NOT double posting.
Gmail shows you both your sent mail and received mail in one tree,
most people aren't used to that..
--
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
http://number9.hellooperator.net/
I also thought it was very cool, but I also realised that it's harder
to tell whether the message got to the mailing list.
Cheers,
Ed
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On 10/18/05, Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
> Look in your sent mail, you'll see one copy of the message, and in
> your inbox, another ... it's the same thing.Except that gmail didn't always do that. It used to hide the "sent"
copy of your message when the other copy appeared in your inbox. A few
weeks ago, it stopped doing that, and now shows both copies.When I noticed that it hid the "sent mail" copy way back when, I
thought it was very cool, and wished my regular email app was as smart
as that.
--
Encontrá a "Tu psicópata favorito" http://tuxmaniac.blogspot.com
Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them without cause,
that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.
-- Seventh commandment for C programmers
Some/many mailing lists are setup such that the post is not copied to
the author, e.g.
while post = list.listener.next_post
list.subscribers.each do |subscriber|
list.send( subscriber, post ) unless
post.author == subscriber
end
end
Obviously a very naive and inefficient implementation, but should give
the idea. Ruby-* doesn't have the "unless". My guess is there's a good
reason for this (maybe something to do with the newsgroup/list
gateway?). But that should explain why the gmail behavior doesn't
appear consistent across lists.
Jacob Fugal
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On 10/20/05, Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com> wrote:
So why does it only happen on these two lists?
For me, I've never seen gmail hide my sent ... but, i guess that
is/was just an option I hadn't found.
j.
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On 10/18/05, Edgardo Hames <ehames@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/05, Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Look in your sent mail, you'll see one copy of the message, and in
> > your inbox, another ... it's the same thing.
>
> Except that gmail didn't always do that. It used to hide the "sent"
> copy of your message when the other copy appeared in your inbox. A few
> weeks ago, it stopped doing that, and now shows both copies.
>
> When I noticed that it hid the "sent mail" copy way back when, I
> thought it was very cool, and wished my regular email app was as smart
> as that.I also thought it was very cool, but I also realised that it's harder
to tell whether the message got to the mailing list.Cheers,
Ed
--
Encontrá a "Tu psicópata favorito" http://tuxmaniac.blogspot.comThou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them without cause,
that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.
-- Seventh commandment for C programmers
--
"http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"
Jeff Wood