On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:44:38 +1000, Colin Carter <colincarter@exemail.com.au> wrote:
This is an interesting conversation because I get a copy of my questions. But I often see replies to questions which I have never seen, or I see a response with an intermediate response which I missed.
Something is going wrong. I just potter along and hope to receive/read a reasonable selection that makes sense. Regards, Colin
That's exactly how it works :). You have send your replay to my email address, but not to the list. Now, when I replay to the list, with your post quoted, others will see only my response, and your quoted post. But they have never received your original, as it was not send to the list. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:55, Sunny wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:44:38 +1000, Colin Carter
<colincarter@exemail.com.au> wrote:
This is an interesting conversation because I get a copy of my questions. But I often see replies to questions which I have never seen, or I see a response with an intermediate response which I missed.
Something is going wrong. I just potter along and hope to receive/read a reasonable selection that makes sense. Regards, Colin
That's exactly how it works :). You have send your replay to my email address, but not to the list. Now, when I replay to the list, with your post quoted, others will see only my response, and your quoted post. But they have never received your original, as it was not send to the list.
Sunny
-- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
This is interesting. I was interacting extensively with Ingo Strauch on [suse-xfree86] and had no problem by just hitting 'reply'. However, when I did that to your posting it only went to you. I looked at the difference by starting a 'reply' (and cancelling) to different postings and noticed that the 'reply' automatically set up to return to the forum on some postings but not on others. I believe that it is because you only 'Copy' your email to the discussion whereas others post 'To' the forum. This would explain why parts of the discussions 'go missing'. The only other explanation I can think of is that different mail systems respond differently. Mine is KMail. Does anybody else have a comment? Regards, Colin
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:33 am, Colin Carter wrote:
The only other explanation I can think of is that different mail systems respond differently. Mine is KMail.
Does anybody else have a comment?
I use Kmail also. You have the option to right-click the message and choose 'Reply to Author' or 'Reply to Mailing List' Also, just noticed something cool about kmail and mailing lists. If you setup filters to grab mail from list A to goto folder A and tell that folder (under folders properties) that it holds a mailing list, you can then right click on that folder and choose 'New message to mailing list'. Kmail seems very well adapted for mailing lists. B-)
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:26 pm, Brad Bourn wrote: <snip>
Also, just noticed something cool about kmail and mailing lists. If you setup filters to grab mail from list A to goto folder A and tell that folder (under folders properties) that it holds a mailing list, you can then right click on that folder and choose 'New message to mailing list'. <snip>
I use KMail, too. If I'm reading, say, your post to SLE and I hit the "L" key, KMail launches a reply to the list. If I hit the "R" key, however, it launches a reply to /you/. I learned that from Patrick Shanahan, btw, so all props go to him. ;-) regards, - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:23 -0500, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
I use KMail, too. If I'm reading, say, your post to SLE and I hit the "L" key, KMail launches a reply to the list. If I hit the "R" key, however, it launches a reply to /you/. I learned that from Patrick Shanahan, btw, so all props go to him. ;-)
Don't know if this will work with kmail, it does with evolution. I highlight the text I want in my reply and do a reply to list and the only text in the compose window is the highlighted text. Helps for replying to posts that are hundreds of lines long and you only want to include a small portion. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:30 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't know if this will work with kmail, it does with evolution. I highlight the text I want in my reply and do a reply to list and the only text in the compose window is the highlighted text. Helps for replying to posts that are hundreds of lines long and you only want to include a small portion.
Yes, that works in kmail also.... and now even easier with the 'L' key! B-)
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:30 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:23 -0500, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
I use KMail, too. If I'm reading, say, your post to SLE and I hit the "L" key, KMail launches a reply to the list. If I hit the "R" key, however, it launches a reply to /you/. I learned that from Patrick Shanahan, btw, so all props go to him. ;-)
Don't know if this will work with kmail, it does with evolution. I highlight the text I want in my reply and do a reply to list and the only text in the compose window is the highlighted text. Helps for replying to posts that are hundreds of lines long and you only want to include a small portion.
Hi Ken, That works in KMail, too. It's very convenient. Now all I have to figure out is how to fix this wretched text=flowed "unformatting" of the quoted text. See what it does, above? I've tried widening the word-wrap threshhold, narrowing it and even setting it to /no/ right-hand margin. No dice. Any thoughts? - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:41, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
That works in KMail, too. It's very convenient. Now all I have to figure out is how to fix this wretched text=flowed "unformatting" of the quoted text. See what it does, above? I've tried widening the word-wrap threshhold, narrowing it and even setting it to /no/ right-hand margin. No dice. Any thoughts?
Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer -> Use Smart Quoting (From the KMail help: "If checked, KMail will break long lines but will try to keep the correct quoting (e.g. the “> ” will always be at the start of the line).")
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:37 pm, Scott Jones wrote:
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:41, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
That works in KMail, too. It's very convenient. Now all I have to figure out is how to fix this wretched text=flowed "unformatting" of the quoted text. See what it does, above? I've tried widening the word-wrap threshhold, narrowing it and even setting it to /no/ right-hand margin. No dice. Any thoughts?
Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer -> Use Smart Quoting
(From the KMail help: "If checked, KMail will break long lines but will try to keep the correct quoting (e.g. the “> ” will always be at the start of the line).")
Holy Cow! Look at /that/ ^ It's a beautiful thing! That's what happens when your eyes start glazing over. Sometimes you just have to ask and move on... Thank you! - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----
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