Misconfigured mailing lists (was Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts)

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <199810201528.KAA29058@metropolis.nuclecu.unam.mx>, Miguel de Icaza 
writes:
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| > Then why waste space in my mailbox by sending 2 responses to the same
| > message to me?  And sending me two copies of them at that?
| 
| Use a decent mailer.
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Why am I forced to use procmail because *someone else* is lazy?

I get the duplicate messages as well.  The problem is far worse on 
linux-kernel, but the lazy crowd screamed bloody murder when the list default 
was changed to something sane and it went back to requiring all members to do 
their own duplicate-message suppression so the lazy folks don't have to pay 
attention to what they're doing.  So I suppose the official way to manage 
lists now is "if you want to be on our list, you have to compensate for our 
losingness because we're lazy".

Really nice.  How long before those of us who get several hundred messages a 
day *before* all the list dups give up and go away from the broken lists?  
Before we get tired of using procmail to hack around broken lists?