OT: Gmail and reading this list

[Claude Jones]

On Thu December 15 2005 7:23 am, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 16:27 -0600, Claude Jones wrote:
> > when my own message gets back to gmail, it knows somehow, that it's
> > the same message I sent 'through' before
>
> I don't know about gmail's workings, but other systems might do that
> sort of trick by checking the unique message IDs in each posts.  If an
> incoming message's matches a sent message's, it's supposedly the same
> message.  Usenet clients can use that technique to not double up on your
> own messages in its database

Mystery has been probably solved by Chasecreek Jones. It's the mail-list 
software - it adds a header line that contains the word "copy" in it. Gmail 
presumably looks for that line in incoming headers and /dev/nulls the 
message. Makes perfect sense and explains why I can't find any settings in 
prefs to offset the behavior.

In the early days of gmail, I came across an explanation about this behavior 
in their docs, which stated that they would not list your own posts coming 
back to you from mail lists; this was touted as a 'feature' to cut down on 
volume in the mailbox or words to that effect - funny thing is, I've never 
been able to find their explanation of this behavior again, so I can't quote 
the exact words. 

I'd say, case closed. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA