Re: [OT] E-mail formatting

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 02/12/2011 03:38 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:16, Brad Rogers<brad@fineby.me.uk>  wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:51:02 +0000 (UTC)
> > Camaleón<noelamac@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> > Hello Camaleón,
> >
> > > I would try it if I can but I am not receiving e-mails from this list
> > > to my Gmail account. Does anyone know how to request to this mailing
> > > list server a message?
> > It won't help;  Google won't echo your mails back to you when you post
> > to a mailing list.  They appear in the "All Mail" folder, but never in
> > the inbox.  Google call it a feature.  Nigh on everyone else calls it a
> > bug.  Google will not alter this behaviour.
> >
> > For that reason (amongst others) it is as well to remember that gmail !=
> > email.
> Why would want a list email in your inbox anyway?
> Folders and rules exist for a reason.
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
Well, we've gone around and around with this before, but the obvious reason
is so that you know the mail actually _made it_ to the list.  I don't 
know why
anyone would use GMail when you can use a more friendly one like 
Thunderbird.
Or KMail, if you run a KDE system.

--doug

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