On Sat 03 Oct 2020 at 07:06:55 (-0600), jh wrote: > On 2020-10-02 21:20, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Oct 2020 at 16:51:07 (-0600), jh wrote: > > > > > In general Lilypond has gotten so technical that I can't even follow > > > the questions.....however I use it (older version) and am generally > > > pleased with what I can understand. > > > However > > > Often there are attachments that are 'scrubbed' and links at the > > > bottom of questions and responses, and once upupon a time I had an > > > inkling of how to access those but no longer and just clicking on them > > > gives me 'bad gateway' messages. > > > So how does one access those? > > > > It's useful when asking questions like this to say by which method > > you're accessing the discussion. I'll assume that you're reading > > the mailing list on gnu.org in text digest form. > > > > If that is so, then you need to visit > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > and click on [Unsubscribe or edit options] near the foot of the page. > > Login on the page that appears, and then change your subscription > > from Plain Text to MIME, about halfway down the page that appears. > > You'll start receiving digests with each post and attachment as a > > separate part of a multipart digest, instead of just running text.
> Thanks for this. I'm not doing what you assumed. I get the 'digest' > via email and that is where I see the links at the end of many of the > queries/responses. Sorry. I assumed you would understand that digests are intrinsically emails, designed for people whose systems struggle with large numbers of individual posts. > It's been so long that I even went to the places you mention that I no > longer have a record of logging in or password etc. You don't need it. I gave you the link, and I know that you can ascertain the email address that the digests are being sent to. > I hope that this is the answer to the suggestion/question you raise. > Perhaps it is not possible to access those links from the email? Time was when people communicated with list servers by means of commands that looked like an adventure game: pickup sword, kill giant, etc. Typically, you can still unsubscribe in that manner, but most interactions are nowadays done through a browser. So please visit the link and press the button. (Not a lot to ask.) Everything you need will then be available. I could do the first step for you, but the result might be misinterpreted as a phishing attempt, so I won't. Cheers, David.