Hello R. Diez via Mailman-Users. On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:11:48 +0100, you wrote:
> I have the following recurring problem with mailing lists all over > the Internet: people do reply to my posts, by they do not address or > copy me in their replies. They send their e-mails only to the mailing > list. Or they reply to the previous reply, and forget to copy the > original poster. If I post a question to a list, I am also a subscriber to the list and I get replies to my question that way. > So I do not get a copy of the relevant messages straight away. A mailing list may have a web archive, but the standard thing is that the conversation goes via e-mail. > I cannot subscribe to every mailing list I need to occasionally use. > It's far too much. This e-mail is the perfect example of such a > come-ask-and-go-again scenario. So, to post to _this_ list, you had to subscribe to it. You may remain a subscriber until your question is answered. Where is the problem? > If I need to subscribe in order to post a question, I turn off mail > delivery straight away. Aha. > Other forum software has a nice feature for this scenario: If I post > to a subject, I am automatically subscribed to that subject. I then > get an e-mail for any new posts with the same subject. I think you are talking here about a web forum, where you can "subscribe" to information posted to a certain thread. I never saw this in a real mailing list. I Cc: this reply to you to make sure you see it - but I won’t do this for every message I write to any mailing list normally. Christian -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
