Answers for two separate topics

[Macs R We]

I get the digest, so...

On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:00 PM, macosx-talk-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

>    I just noticed an odd behavior that *I* at least consider a bug in
> mail.  I wrote a message and sent it to X, and CC'd it to address Y.
> X and Y are both Yahoo mailing lists.  What I get back when I check
> my folder from mail from X is *two* copies of the same message, both
> the same, but with different Reply-To fields (one of X and one to
> Y).  It seems to me that Mail should send out one message to X with
> reply-to of X , the other to Y with a reply-to of Y.  Either that or
> the RFC needs to change to allow multiple Reply-To, but that has
> great potential to create havoc - with postings really meant for only
> one list going to the other.  I'm subscribed to both, so I can just
> check both (except I'm about 500 messages behind on one of them..)

In the case described, Mail isn't responsible for the contents of  
Reply-To, Yahoo is.   Each mailing list independently gets a copy of  
the e-mail, and each reflects it to the entire membership with Reply- 
To set to itself.  I don't see how any other result is possible even  
if you wanted one.

>    I'm using (Intel) OSX 10.4.10, sharing a printer (Brother
> DCP-7020) from a (PPC) 10.4.11 machine. I will often see at least
> two, sometimes 7 or 8 printers listed in the "Shared Printers"
> submenu - all the same, but only one of them seems to activate the
> Print button.  What are all the other "ghosts" doing there?  On the
> host machine, all the printers showed up as well in Printer Setup.

I've seen this happen before.  In my case, two machines on the  
network both had a printer with the exact same name ("Epson {model- 
number}") and one of them decided to enable printer sharing on his  
printer.  The list of identical printers grew as we watched!  We  
solved it by renaming the printers.  I've also seen similar results  
when one machine decided to enable printer sharing on a networked  
printer: the other Macs went bats.  The key here is to make sure that  
no machine has a defined printer with the same name as a printer  
another Mac is sharing (even if it's the selfsame device).

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