Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Nobody
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:47:50 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >> I use Thunderbird, and treat the list as ordinary mail. I use >> reply-all, and it seems to do the right thing. Or at least if I'm >> breaking threads, nobody has pointed it out to me yet. > > reply-all may send duplicate messages to t

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
Xavier Ho wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only remains to choose a mail client that knows how to use it. Would you be so kind and share wi

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 19:04 +1000, Xavier Ho wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney +pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any > mail client > to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only >

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Xavier Ho
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: > Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client > to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only remains to > choose a mail client that knows how to use it. Would you be so kind and share with us for such

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Hendrik van Rooyen writes: > If I [use the “reply to author” command], then the mail would go just > to you, and not to the list at all, which is not what I suspect you > want, in view of what you have just said. Right. The common “reply” command in most mail clients means “reply to author”, and

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Xavier Ho
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > It would really be nice if the "reply" would go to the list, but for the > digest versions, at least, it does not. I'm on a few other lists. The Python ones are the only ones that I have to manually change. The Nuke-user mailing list

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Thursday 27 August 2009 22:57:44 Terry Reedy wrote: > > Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. > > In particular, because there is no indication that it is an exact > duplicate of what I will also find on the list itself. Please use reply > instead of reply-all. If I do tha

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy writes: > In particular, because there is no indication that it is an exact > duplicate of what I will also find on the list itself. Please use > reply instead of reply-all. Better: If you don't want to reply to the author directly, and you don't want to reply to everyone, don't use

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Aahz
In article , Terry Reedy wrote: >David House wrote: >> 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy : >>> >>> reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of >>> this list. >> >> I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. > >Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. More precisely, there

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
Terry Reedy wrote: David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy : reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. In particular, because there is no indication that i

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy : reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Angel
Xavier Ho wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Angel wrote: Thanks for those pointers. For example, I see a single message containing typically around 10 attachments. I do the reply-all to one of these attachments, and it handles the message body okay, the To/CC fields okay,

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-27, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-08-27 07:41 AM, David House wrote: >> 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy: >>> reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. >> >> I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. > > Many of us read from comp.lang.python or gmane.comp.python.gen

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-08-27 07:41 AM, David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Many of us read from comp.lang.python for gmane.comp.python.general. I do not appreciate getting reply email

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread David House
2009/8/27 Terry Reedy : > reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. -- -David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Ho
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > I'm not sure how the list-server decides what thread a particular message > belongs to. It's more than just the subject line, since when people change > the subject, it stays in the same thread. > I'm just using gmail because it saves me the

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
Dave Angel wrote: Frank Millman wrote: I use Thunderbird, and treat the list as ordinary mail. I use reply-all, and it seems to do the right thing. Or at least if I'm breaking threads, nobody has pointed it out to me yet. reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of th

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Angel
Frank Millman wrote: Hi all I mentioned yesterday that I had a problem sending a message to the newsgroup via the Outlook Express news reader. Today I received an email from DaveA, which was sent to me via python-l...@python.org. I tried simply replying to the email, to see if it behaved bette

[OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Frank Millman
Hi all I mentioned yesterday that I had a problem sending a message to the newsgroup via the Outlook Express news reader. Today I received an email from DaveA, which was sent to me via python-l...@python.org. I tried simply replying to the email, to see if it behaved better than Outlook Express.