OT - List mailing (was iplayer audio to lpcm)

[Owen Smith]

If the message-id is the same, then the email is asserting itself to be the same message. If the mailing list is changing headers enough to make it essentially a different message then it should also change the message-id.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

On 12 Nov 2014, at 18:58, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer <jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:

> Budgie <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/11/14 17:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> 
>> "The mails in this thread that people have thoughtfully CCed to me
>> personally have arrived, but the mail-list ones have not."
>> 
>> I have sent this using "Reply List" and not CCd it to you, so will you
>> receive it I wonder?
> 
> Yes, I did and would expect to...
> 
> Thinking more about this, if you send a mail to the mail list and CC that to
> me, the mail list copy should go to the mail list server and get its extra
> headers etc added to it before that is then sent to my email address at
> AAISP.  The CCed copy goes directly from you to my email address at AAISP
> (and perhaps/probably gets there first).
> 
> Although the meaningful content should be the same in both, many of the
> headers and, for example, appended sig text about mail list Ts&Cs is clearly
> going to be different in the two copies.  
> 
> So that suggests that AAISP's definition of "they're the same mail" isn't a
> very good one; maybe they just look at the message-id.
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
> 
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