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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 11:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 11:02:00 1985
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In article <11405@brl-tgr.ARPA> lauren@rand-unix.ARPA writes:
>Luckily, that scenario doesn't happen very often, since many (but not all)
>of the responders are smart enough to send only one copy of the
> ....

The "answering machine" program that I've seen keeps track of who it
has replied to, and only replies to each person once.  This would be a
partial solution for mailing lists, although the first time an article
came through everybody on the list would get bombarded.
-- 
Mike Shaddock			{decvax,seismo}!mcnc!rti-sel!shaddock