Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 14:46, Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> for...@postgresql.com.au is pointed to a black hole so that email > >>> disappears but the mailing list gets another copy. When the mailing list > >>> gets its copy it sends a copy to the forum (because the forum is just > >>> like a subscribed user), the parser then dissects the headers to find out > >>> where the post belongs. We already know this part works. > >> > >> So how does one respond to the user? > > > > I can't explain it any clearer, your email response goes to the mailing > > list and that mailing list sends a copy to the original person thats how a > > mailing list works. It also sends a copy to the forum which is parses you > > and that person and anyone else can see the reply on the forum. > > Clearly you're not understanding my point. I don't *want* it to go to > the list. I want to write a private email to the user who made a post > from the forum, without having to set up and use a forum account. Just > a simple response, just the way I can do now. > > But I'll leave it to somebody else to attempt to explain that, since I > clearly am unable to get it across.
I would argue that if the person wants to use a forum, aren't they saying they don't want to be contacted via email. I think we just throw it only to the forum (that is the user) and leave it that. Forum users don't get the _rich_ email experience. ;-) -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
