Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL RPM Yum repository is available]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 January 2008 4:37 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:01:49 +0100 Magnus Hagander
>>
>> <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>> Oops. I'm totally guilty of that. That means I didn't get four copies,
>>> but I certainly got more than one of at least one of them. But you can
>>> probably scratch my comment about the long time difference.
>>
>> I just about got caught by that too ... was looking at the raw archives and
>> grep'd for Devrim and found two copies from him, and had to go back and
>> look at a second time to realize they were totally different messages :(
>>
>>> //Magnus
>>
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> For the record I got two copies of each, as one was sent to ANNOUNCE and the
> other was sent to GENERAL.

That would would definitely contribute to the *appearance* of multiple
messages being sent out ... so, between the confusion of subject of the
message, and potential multiple lists ...

... now you understand why headers for this would have been useful? :(

Sad thing is, depending on how your filter was setup, you would never have
noticed the copy to -announce vs -general either ... not to have thought
about saving copies ...