Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:00:41PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Agreed. However Mailman has an option that is often (ab)used. > > "Filter out duplicate messages to list members (if possible)" > > In which case if you are subscribed to the mailing list and someone > posts to the mailin

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread David Woodfall
On (13/02/13 11:15), Mark H. Wood put forth the proposition: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:17:43PM -0500, Brandon McCaig wrote: Some mailing lists don't require a subscription so you should use 'g' to reply to those lists so even unsubscribed participants get the messages. Other lists insist that

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-13 Thread Bob Proulx
James Griffin wrote: > I believe Fedora/Redhat systems have a similar way of selecting > which package/program should be your default using an > "alternatives-type" command. Useful for Linux users. At the risk of drifting too far from topic, yes, Red Hat / Fedora does have alternatives. It appear

Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Elkins wrote: > I prefer to save the copy with the List-Post header field rather > than the personal copy, so I use a slightly different approach: Agreed. However Mailman has an option that is often (ab)used. "Filter out duplicate messages to list members (if possible)" In which case

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Andre Klärner
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:15:43AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Not for the first time, I find myself wishing for a Geek Code -like > header to encode all the many mailing-list rules and preferences, so > that UAs could give us more help in conforming to local standards. Well, so why doesn't one c

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:17:43PM -0500, Brandon McCaig wrote: > Some mailing lists don't require a subscription so you should use > 'g' to reply to those lists so even unsubscribed participants get > the messages. Other lists insist that you /don't/ reply to > everyone and only reply to the list

Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Elkins
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:49:01PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: presence of the List-Post header also helps mutt's 'L' command, IIRC? (No need for "subscribe" in .muttrc) Yes, that was actually the primary motivation for the recipe.

Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.02.13 17:44, Michael Elkins wrote: > > I prefer to save the copy with the List-Post header field rather than the > personal copy, so I use a slightly different approach: > > :0 > * ^TOmutt-\/[^@]+ > { > # mail cc'd to the mutt-* lists but without the List-Post: header are > dupes >

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-13 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Marco! On Mi, 13 Feb 2013, Marco wrote: > On 2013–02–12 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Some time ago I posted this following in a discussion about the Debian > > alternatives and it includes a walkthrough of how alternatives are > > used and configured. I think it is still relevant. Perhaps it wil

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-13 Thread Marco
On 2013–02–12 Bob Proulx wrote: > Some time ago I posted this following in a discussion about the Debian > alternatives and it includes a walkthrough of how alternatives are > used and configured. I think it is still relevant. Perhaps it will > help others understand how the alternatives work. >

Re: Mailcap

2013-02-13 Thread James Griffin
- Ed [2013-02-12 15:39:33 -0500] - : > I have this in my mailcap to view images > > image/*; /usr/bin/gpicview '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > > but when I open a message with an image attached mutt tells me there > is no entry in mailcap, but if I go on to using "v" then the image is >

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-13 Thread James Griffin
- Bob Proulx [2013-02-12 18:16:11 -0700] - : > Luis Mochan wrote: > > my system, /usr/bin/mutt is a link pointing to > > /etc/alternatives/mutt. Furthermore, /etc/alternatives/mutt is a link > > pointing to /usr/bin/mutt-patched, which is the actual binary for the > > ...nice description