On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:16 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday February 10 2015 21:27:07 Craig Treleaven wrote:
>
>> PS Some forums can be set up to send you an email
>> when a sub-forum or topic is updated (after your
>> last visit). I don't know of any that allow you
>> to send an email
On Tuesday February 10 2015 21:27:07 Craig Treleaven wrote:
>PS Some forums can be set up to send you an email
>when a sub-forum or topic is updated (after your
>last visit). I don't know of any that allow you
>to send an email that becomes a posting, however.
Anyone who ever reported a Googl
At 5:45 PM -0500 2/10/15, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Having both forums and mailing lists would be
harmful to the community. We'd end up with two
bubbles (one much smaller, probably) that don't
interact with each other.
The only way forums would work is if we migrated *all* discussion there.
On Tuesday February 10 2015 17:45:39 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> "Complementary" implies that the items in question reinforce each other in a
> positive manner.
I think they would, but who am I ... =)
> Having both forums and mailing lists would be harmful to the community. We'd
> end up with
On Feb 10, 2015, at 5:24 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> If by "it" you mean Mailman, then as far as I know, it does nothing to
>> deduplicate your mail. It sends the messages it has been instructed to send.
>> So if a message is addressed
On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> It scans the Cc list for the addresses of list members who don't want dups
> and simply doesn't deliver anything to those addresses.
Ergh. It also scans the "To" header.
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On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> If by "it" you mean Mailman, then as far as I know, it does nothing to
> deduplicate your mail. It sends the messages it has been instructed to send.
> So if a message is addressed To a mailing list you're subscribed to, and Cc'd
> to you, the
I do like the idea of a forum or something. Gmail helps with conversation
management, but trying to find conversations from long ago, even with the
archive kinda sucks. Especially for those of us that have mail back when
this was "darwinports"
—Mark
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> On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> If by "it" you mean Mailman, then as far as I know, it does nothing to
> deduplicate your mail.
http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node21.html
> On Feb 10, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> It's not unique; Cyrus imapd could be conf
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt
wrote:
> As far as I know, Gmail is unique in that it deduplicates for you and only
> shows you one copy. I assume it uses the Message-ID to do so.
It's not unique; Cyrus imapd could be configured to do so in early versions
and does it by default in
On Feb 10, 2015, at 4:34 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday February 10 2015 16:41:19 Arno Hautala wrote:
>
>> If you're on BCC, Mailman wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
>
> Evidently. Is it clever enough to take various ways of representing the To:
> or CC: addressing into acco
On Feb 10, 2015, at 5:29 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I see them as complementary. Some people prefer mailing lists, others like
> myself prefer to keep their incoming mail as few as possible.
"Complementary" implies that the items in question reinforce each other in a
positive manner.
Havin
On Tuesday February 10 2015 16:41:19 Arno Hautala wrote:
> If you're on BCC, Mailman wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
Evidently. Is it clever enough to take various ways of representing the To: or
CC: addressing into account? Basically, does it look at the pure email address,
or does i
On Tuesday February 10 2015 16:24:30 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> I personally would not want to have to check Yet Another Source of MacPorts
> Discussion. I don't see what benefit a forum would have over our mailing
> lists.
I see them as complementary. Some people prefer mailing lists, others
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's a feature of Gmail that deduplicates your mail. I do not
> use Gmail and I do get duplicate copies of mailing list messages that are
> also Cc'd to me.
As sent by Lawrence:
> http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node21.ht
> On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Arno Hautala wrote:
>
>>> get a duplicate. You and the list are in the To and CC fields with
>>> this message. Did you get it twice?
>>
>> No, not that I can see (= unless gmail hid an additional copy somewhere, but
>> it could also be that gmail consolidated the
On Feb 10, 2015, at 12:43 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> To kick off the discussion: has a MacPorts forum site ever been taken into
> consideration
Not since I've been paying attention, which has been a few years.
> if so, what were the reasons not to provide one (a summary would be fine)?
I p
On Feb 10, 2015, at 8:01 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Would it be possible to give members of the list access to the memberlist
Technically, yes. Mailman allows the list administrators to change the
visibility of the subscribers list.[1]
Practically, there's no need to broa
On Tuesday February 10 2015 12:30:07 Arno Hautala wrote:
> > Not by sending to the list, no. But there's always the option of sending to
> > a hand-picked selection of list members, if there's a reason to limit the
> > audience.
>
> Also something that doesn't require having a public members li
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:22 AM, René J.V. wrote:
> On Tuesday February 10 2015 10:49:40 Arno Hautala wrote:
>
>>list. There's no way to ensure they *won't* get a message.
>
> Not by sending to the list, no. But there's always the option of sending to a
> hand-picked selection of list members, i
On Tuesday February 10 2015 10:49:40 Arno Hautala wrote:
>list. There's no way to ensure they *won't* get a message.
Not by sending to the list, no. But there's always the option of sending to a
hand-picked selection of list members, if there's a reason to limit the
audience.
>Censoring the ad
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, René J.V. wrote:
>
> I realised later that I should have evoked "knowledge of how many copies a
> given person would get". There are valid situations in which you'd like (or
> should) know if someone is on the list and would thus get a non-zero number
> of copi
On Tuesday February 10 2015 10:05:30 Arno Hautala wrote:
Hi,
>Just CC them. Most mail clients / list servers will consolidate the
>duplicate message and even if it doesn't it's not the worst thing to
I realised later that I should have evoked "knowledge of how many copies a
given person would g
rd to make that publicly
visible. (visible only to members is essentially the same thing)
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM, René J.V. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would it be possible to give members of the list access to the memberlist,
> possibly "mangled" in a way that address
Hello,
Would it be possible to give members of the list access to the memberlist,
possibly "mangled" in a way that addresses appear like
rjvbertin@g
or something similarly useful when you already know a person's address and just
want to verify if s/he is subscribed and thus doe
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