Hi, L--
On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:14 PM, L Goodwin wrote:
1) I get all email posted to freebsd-questions in my inbox
(actually, some end up in "bulk mail" folder). That's a lot of mail
to wade through. I'm trying to get a system up and running so I can
move on to the next task. I suppose I could set up some email
filtering rules to limit what comes in.
You can follow the link to Mailman at the bottom of every list
message, log in using your email addr (boink on the button to have it
send you your password, if you don't remember it), and change your
delivery preference to digest mode or even disable delivery entirely:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions
In addition, Mailman sets the List-ID header recommended by the RFCs,
which means you can easily filter email from the list to another
mailbox, via procmail or your mail client's native filtering.
2) To reply to an email, I have to copy/paste "freebsd-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into the "To" field. If I forget to do this,
my reply gets send to the sender only.
See? I almost forgot to do it for this reply. :-}
Most mail clients have both a "reply" and "reply to all" capability;
the local convention on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to use reply-to-
all, perhaps unless you know that the other person is subscribed.
One feature I like about (some) list servers is the ability to send
a private message to another member. This comes in handy when one
person is helping troubleshoot a problem, and you don't need
everybody on the list to get involved.
Nothing stops you from sending private email to someone else
directly, but normally you want to CC: the list so that everyone can
benefit from the advice or suggestions being made. Taking a thread
to private email tends to be done more when you need to discuss
private config files which contain passwords or some such...
--
-Chuck
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