On Tuesday 25 September 2001 3:57 am, Mike Andrew wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2001 15:56, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > But two good solutions for kmail came out of this:
> >
> > 1) If you right click on the name of the list in the email (in Kmail) it
> > will give you a choice of what you want to do and who you want to do it
> > to.
> >
> > :o) so you can choose to reply to the list.
> >
> > 2) Use a procmail recipe of:
> > :0f
> >
> > * ^X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e
> >
> > | formail -bfi "Reply-To: SLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> >
> > or whatever list you might want to diddle with. Works like a charm.
>
> These are useful and useable answers. The bottom line for me however was
> that some majority of the users of those lists will not do so, or at least
> simply reply to the person, not the list. Extrapolating that means I
> wouldn't get to see 'answers' to some potentially interesting questions and
> hence reading the material is too frustrating. Probably no greater example
> of what I mean is, the bulk of the SxS comes from material culled from
> replies to this and other mailers.
I agree 100% and it is a total pain. I don't know how many times I would
post a response and then realize I only sent it to the individual. I then
would have to retrieve the original, copy my response into another reply and
then send it to the list. A total pain.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/26/01 08:22 +
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"Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad."
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