Joe Smith wrote:
>
> OE does support threading for Email, it is simply disabled by
> default. However overall the threading is more accuracte an reliable
> for newsgroups.
Until this MUA is released under a free license and ported to the GNU
system so it can be packaged, this crucial detail is ou
"Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I really wonder why mailing lists are so common.
It sort of depends on what you're looking for.
Some advanta
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate
>> firewalls, (my company has never allowed external nntp connections),
>> works even on strange systems, etc.
>
> Point. Then again, if your corporate sysadmins don't want you
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Matthias Julius wrote:
> [Mail vs. News]
>> * A mailing list is easier to distribute with a slow
>> server/connection. If a mail takes 3 minutes to show up in your
>> mailbox it doesn't matter. If each news post takes 15 seconds to
>> load i
* Matthias Julius wrote:
[Mail vs. News]
> * A mailing list is easier to distribute with a slow
> server/connection. If a mail takes 3 minutes to show up in your
> mailbox it doesn't matter. If each news post takes 15 seconds to
> load it gets annoying.
Programs like slrnpull and leafnode wh
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:47:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate
> > firewalls, (my company has never allowed external nntp connections),
> > works even on
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So I really wonder why mailing lists are so common.
>
> It sort of depends on what you're looking for.
>
> Some advantages of mailing lists:
>
> * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" --
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> So I really wonder why mailing lists are so common.
>
> It sort of depends on what you're looking for.
>
> Some advantages of mailing lists:
>
> * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate
>
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I really wonder why mailing lists are so common.
It sort of depends on what you're looking for.
Some advantages of mailing lists:
* E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate
firewalls, (my company has never allowed external
"Ben Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
No problem at all. Especially with gmane.org around. I used to
subscribe to dozens of mailing lists, but now I can just browse
all of them as newsgroups.
I agree, I use Gm
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 09:57, Wouter Verhelst took the opportunity to say:
>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>> > In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs,
>> > as well as MTAs. An RFC s
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> This would be absolutely horrible. Most list subscribers use the
>> headers to put list email in separate directories, and this would make
>> some mails miss from the discussion.
> It's an end-user configu
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This would be absolutely horrible. Most list subscribers use the headers
> to put list email in separate directories, and this would make some
> mails miss from the discussion.
It's an end-user configurable feature of mailman, so you can turn it on
On Friday 04 August 2006 09:57, Wouter Verhelst took the opportunity to say:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs,
> > as well as MTAs. An RFC straightening things out could help.
>
> ... Or we
Le vendredi 04 août 2006 à 09:45 -0400, James Vega a écrit :
> This is something that should be solved on the list manager side by not
> sending a duplicate of the email when it can see that an email was
> already sent to an address it recognizes. In fact, some of the lists
> I'm subscribed to do
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:04:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You know, I use a mail program. Replying to people is in my fingers
> > as "hitting a button". A very specific button, especially for that
> > purpose. I expect my MUA to Do The Right T
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:04:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You know, I use a mail program. Replying to people is in my fingers
> > as "hitting a button". A very specific button, especially for that
> > purpose. I expect my MUA to Do The Right T
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs, as
> well as MTAs. An RFC straightening things out could help.
... Or we could all just forget about mailinglists and start using
newsgroups instead. They don
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:37, John Goerzen took the opportunity to say:
> The mailer is doing the right thing. Sending a CC isn't a "shout".
>
> The sender isn't. If the sender doesn't want CCs, it's fully within the
> sender's power to specify that in the list headers. Most senders on
> thi
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You know, I use a mail program. Replying to people is in my fingers
> as "hitting a button". A very specific button, especially for that
> purpose. I expect my MUA to Do The Right Thing (TM).
Most MUAs will do the right thing when you reply; they'll
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am on dozens of mailing lists. There are thousands of participants on
> this list alone. I subscribe to, and leave, mailing lists all the time.
> Why should a person with a personal preference expect me to shoulder the
> burden of maintaining a mental
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:27:15AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 00:37, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > If your mailer makes you automatically go shouting on the push of a
> > > button, it may be time to download the source and get some serious
> > > hacking done.
> >
> > The ma
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:37, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:24:10PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > You know, I use a mail program. Replying to people is in my fingers as
> > > "hitting a button". A very specific button, especially for that
> > > purpose. I expect my MUA to
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:24:10PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > You know, I use a mail program. Replying to people is in my fingers as
> > "hitting a button". A very specific button, especially for that purpose.
> > I expect my MUA to Do The Right Thing (TM). It usually does, except on
> > the
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:30 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:20:26AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:34 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ok, third time. Please do not do that:
> > > > To: George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > CC: de
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:20:26AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:34 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, third time. Please do not do that:
> > > To: George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> >
> > Then SET YOUR HEADERS to reflect
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