Re: [Evolution] Filtering out duplicate messages

[William X Walsh <william wxw org>]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:01, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 14:26, ahimsa wrote:
>
> > With a couple of the lists that I belong to I am finding that I am
> > getting two messages - duplicates - and was curious if anybody had found
> > a way to filter out the duplicate using Evo's filters? If so, what
> > worked for you.
>
> Please search in the list archives, there have been a number of detailed
> threads about this. In short: Evo developers feel there is not a safe
> algorithm to identify "duplicate messages", so they don't believe this
> should be done in Evo. Message-Id headers are not, per se, guaranteed to
> be unique on your entire mailbox, although in most cases are.

Fine, then warn the user about the possible consequences, and let the
user decide if they want to implement it or not.  That it might not work
as planned in a VERY limited number of cases (especially as rarely as
this case is likely to occur) seems like a very poor reason to not
include the feature.

The developers should want to provide the most functionality possible,
and let the users decide what functionalities they actually use. 

I hope Evolution does not go down the path I've seen other open source
projects go down, and use control over the features implemented to
enforce THEIR view of how things SHOULD be done, and instead let the
users have the options on whether the features are ones they want to
enable or not.


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