I am not an expert in mail clients too (neither in English language). I do not participate in many lists, too. Maybe because of that, I had problems with posting/replying to this list. But, then, there are (maybe) other reasons. I mostly use Netscape as mail client and here is some of my experience with it and the S.u.S.E list: 1. hit on "reply" button produces a "to" msg to original poster only 2. button "reply all" makes a "to" msg to the poster and a "cc" to list. If then I delete "to" field and edit "cc" field (change it to "to") then I do not cause duplicates. If I leave it like my mailer "proposes", than it causes "doubles" in the list. 3. a direct msg "to" list (starting new thread) I can do only when I click on "list-post" link in some earlier msg header (view/headers/full). There may exist another way (other than direct typing in address field), but I did not figure it out yet. 4. I never played with "forward" button :-) When comparing to other lists I've seen, this behavior is litlle too complicated. Most of the other lists' headers are set up so that hitting "reply" is exactly what one expects - i.e. reply to the list. Or it is just an e-mailer issue? Best regards rms "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka" wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:29:11PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2001 19:51 pm, Glenn Williams wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2001 15:24, you wrote:
[snip]
To whom that applies
When replying to a mail please _DO_NOT CC to the person. As this person is on the list also you are just increasing bandwith usage for both sides. Since the only way you can send an email to any SuSE mailling Lists is only if the person is subscribed what is the benefit of CC'ing to the others who tried to provide an answer unless the original email sender has requested to be CC'ed.
Here's the problem (mail-client-specific - in my case, Kmail):
Like many of you, I subscribe to 2 Linux mail lists; the SuSE list and the generic list Doug hosts. If I want to reply to something on the linux-users list, I click the 'reply' icon. If I do the same thing on the SuSE list, the reply goes to the *author* and not the list, so then I must open the address book, find the address for the SuSE list, click on it, and then delete the author's address.
"Big deal!" you say. But it is a royal PIA from where I sit. If I remember, (*if*) I can click the 'reply ALL' icon and then remember to delete the extra address. It would be great if they both worked the same way - but they don't.
My 2 kopecks...
Regards
(so why did you send this to the linux.nf list??)
But I agree with you 100%. Every other list I have *ever* joined works by ^^^^^^^^^^^
English is not my first language. But according to the dictionary (I looked into Longman), "every other" means "the first, third, fifth etc or the second forth, sixth etc of things that can be counted"
Did you really mean that half of the lists you joined works? ;-)
just hitting 'reply', but some of the S.O.B.'s on the SuSE list think that their way is the 'pure' way. And I think I'm going to drop that list just because of it. More because of the attitude than having to spend the time to make sure the mail goes to the right place.
If you look at the full headers of the messages from SLE you'll find a line
X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e
And it's only a matter of MUA configuration to process this line properly. mutt has no problems with that. I am not an expert neither in KMail, nor in Netscape/Mozilla. Maybe someone else knows how to configure mailing lists in graphical MUAs.
-Kastus
(but of couse, they don't care)
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