bug#897: marked as done (Huge numbers of duplicate mails)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #897,
regarding Huge numbers of duplicate mails
to be marked as done.

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> Huge numbers of duplicate mails
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> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:59:08 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs,emacsbugs
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> Almost every mail on the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list is duplicated.
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> Mailman at least seems to filter them from the html archives, but if
> you are subscribed to the list, or look at the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup
> you can see them.
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> It happens because people keep using followup to reply to all the
> addresses in a bug report, ie they send mail to both: 123@emacsbugs
> and bug-gnu-emacs (or emacs-pretest-bugs). This was traditionally the
> Right Thing to do in these lists, so it will be hard to get people to
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> Perhaps bug #430 (wish...) will help with this, but here is another
> suggestion:
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> If emacsbugs sees that bug-gnu-emacs or emacs-pretest-bug is already
> Cc'd on a reply to bug, it should avoid sending out another copy to
> the list. Ie, it treats it as a "quiet" submission only to be entered
> in the tracker.
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> (Presumably there must already be some logic to handle this case,
> because it at least avoids creating a new numbered bug report.)
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> Re: Bug#897
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> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:36:26 -0500
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Recent changes ought to gradually make duplicate emails less common.
> (See bug#5384). This is still not perfect, so I'll open a new, shorter
> bug with the remaining issues.
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