RE: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:18, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion how Outlook can be configured to reply to the list instead of replying to sender? Uhmm reply-to-all. Or write a macro (and ideally, GPL it :]) . Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, I would like to point out that most people on this list are busy people, As am I. and that the most convenient way to reply is the one that takes the least effort on their part. In my software I simply hit reply instead of reply all. Either button is as easy. The message that started this discussion used the default behavior of pine (reply to author, cc to list - I hit reply, write the message, and press send), whereas for this message I actually had to explicitly remove your name from the To: line and move the cygwin list from Cc: to To:. I'm only doing this to prove the point now, and will most probably not do so in the future. Yes and in my software the default way is to either hit the reply button or type Control-R. In order to reply all you need to hit that button or Control-Shift-R (i.e. a little more difficult). But the issue is not only are people who reply busy but so are the readers. With your software's defaults I get a message in my email AND see it and have to skip it later when I read the list. Thus it is more work for me, hence the request not to do this. As for the path of least inconvenience, if your method was the most popular then I would be receiving email whenever somebody response to one of my posts but I don't. Therefore it sounds to me like this is a pine'ism. Otherwise I will simply set up a filter to ignore all email from you :-) ! This is certainly your choice. Ploink! Again, I don't appreciate getting email that's a copy of what I'll be reading on the list shortly anyway. As I mentioned before, the standard way to deal with this (on any mailing list) is to use a Reply-To header. Since your method for reading and posting to this list is non-standard (namely, the gmane newsgroup) and incompatible with Reply-To, It didn't used to be incompatible however the gname maintainer changed that behavior. you would need to seek alternate solutions. Yeah, ploink I guess... :-) P.S. Also note that, even with your current setup, you can get a double copy only if someone replies to a message that you posted. Again, when others respond I do not get an additional email copy of it. Just with some people. Apparently people who use pine and perhaps some other mailers. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:50, Andrew DeFaria wrote: But the issue is not only are people who reply busy but so are the readers. With your software's defaults I get a message in my email AND see it and have to skip it later when I read the list. Thus it is more work for me, hence the request not to do this. Heh, fix your mail reader. Seriously. It's neither the posters, nor the list serve's responsibility to reduce duplicates. And given that there are valid reasons for duplicates (say an issue that affects both kde-cygwin and general-cygwin discussions), it's up to you to solve the problem at your end. As for the path of least inconvenience, if your method was the most popular then I would be receiving email whenever somebody response to one of my posts but I don't. Therefore it sounds to me like this is a pine'ism. Heh. I use Reply-All. You'll probably see two responses, unless you fix your mail reader first :}. Apparently people who use pine and perhaps some other mailers. I use evolution, and occasionally MS Outlook / MS Outlook Express. You'll get the same behaviour from me every time. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:21, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Again, I don't appreciate getting email that's a copy of what I'll be reading on the list shortly anyway. This needs a note: Emails have a unique message ID, that mail de-dupers can remove. I don't get duplicates, even when something goes to 3 or four different mailing lists. If your email package doesn't do this, get a real one :}. Anything using qmail, exim or postfix should be able to do this. MS Exchange server does this. Cheers, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
