[GRASS-dev] Mailman settings - was Re: g.proj -p - units is : meters or metres ?

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> >> > Changing the default won't affect existing users.
> 
> Any pointers how to do global list adjustment of this setting?

No idea; the Mailman documentation is something of a mess. You could
try asking on their mailing list.

> >> I would be annoyed if someone changed this for me without asking.
> >> This setting saves me time.
> >
> > While for other people, it results in them never seeing a reply to
> > their question.
> >
> > If it was turned off, you'd know about it the first time that you got
> > a duplicate reply. If it's left on, people won't notice that they're
> > losing emails unless they happen to look at the archives or if someone
> > replies to the reply.
> 
> I think that there is another setting in Mailman which avoid duplicate
> receiving of messages (based on message ID matching).

That just prevents the list receiving duplicates. I don't often see
duplicates appearing on these lists, so either it's enabled already,
or there's no real need for it.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>