Orphaned Response

[shaddock at rti-sel.UUCP]

In article <11405 at brl-tgr.ARPA> lauren at 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.
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Mike Shaddock			{decvax,seismo}!mcnc!rti-sel!shaddock