Keith Whaley wrote:
William Morrison wrote:
James wrote:
James, for future reference, when posting here with a problem, ALWAYS
use reply, so that your messages stay in one threading, so people can
chase up whats been suggested before so they don't repeat what others
have said.
Then, to stop each post getting too long, you can "snip" (i.e. cut
and
delete) out the old stuff (as Lee did a few posts back), just leaving
enough for people to follow whats going on.
Good to see you've fixed your problem.
Daniel
For the record, James was using the mailing list interface, and
receiving a digest of posts periodically. Using the Reply key was
going
to send a reply to the entire digest, and would not have threaded
anyhow. We got him set up on the news server and all is well.
Lee
.
.
And it is much appreciated.
I still would appreciate it if anyone can tell me if there is a way to
PROPERLY reply [without creating the problem with new threads] from the
mailing list interface.
If there is not then why the heck is it even provided? Members of this
list obviously don't want to have to struggle with a new thread with
every reply.
Incidentally, I always used "reply" on the mailing list just as I have
here; that doesn't work on the mailing list.
Thanks,
James
I know "Reply All" worked in the email client going through
support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org but you had to remove the
originating sender so they don't get double of what you send but
don't know if it works the same in newsgroup so I'm sending this
through newsgroup. If you get this from the newsgroup and as a direct
email James and this threads correctly I would suggest using the
"Reply All". If not then your guess is as good as mine.
It worked just fine that way, William, since you started from within
the newsgroup.
But since I can answer the support list messages from either the
newsgroup OR the mailing list, and if I'm already IN the mailing list,
why not answer it from there instead of exiting the mailing list and
opening the newsgroup, to answer ONE message, and going back to the list?
They both cover the very same words, so why is a mirror necessary?
Better said, when one is in the mail list already, and selects 'Reply'
why is the header set up to put the last individual poster to any
thread in the To slot instead of the CC slot?
Or, why send a personal copy to the last person to post to the group
at all?
What's the point?
Put another way, why should I even belong to the newsgroup so long as
support-seamon...@lists... exists? I get my messages at both places
right now. If I dropped the newsgroup, but kept getting all the
support- messages by way of the mail list, I don't NEED the newsgroup
to communicate.
All this discussion to avoid fixing the situation so that selecting
"Reply" replies to the support group instead of one person (the last
poster). Odd.
keith whaley
What you said is very true but as you can see or maybe can't see is that
I am not responding to you thru the NG this time but using the list to
do so and that your not going to get a direct mailing of it because I
simply clicked on "reply all" and then deleted your address from the
sending address bar. I'm not sure how the list is setup but know from
experience with Yahoo Groups that this problem may not be a problem of
SeaMonkey's but of Google's where the list, I believe, originates and a
simple change in the settings of the "reply to" preference by the
moderator of the list could repair. I'm on over one hundred Groups on
Yahoo and each has their settings different so I have to watch when
replying to them if clicking reply just sends it to the posting member
or back to the Group for distribution to all members.
--
Big Bill
Massillon, Oh USA
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