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Re: Mailing-list configuration



On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:57:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2016 14:46:42 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 13 June 2016 19:35:54 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > And I am not sure that this tempest in a teapot is all about, the
> > > older kmail that I use and the older TBird that I have unwillingly
> > > used way back up the logbook now, both have a reply-to-list button.
> > >  This is a list and I use that button to start a reply.
> > >
> > > So what is/was the actual perceived problem that started this
> > > bandwitch waster?
> >
> > One of the people on the list considers himself too important to be
> > expected to use a reply-to-list button and deliberately replies to
> > posters.
> >
> > It isn't a bandwidth waster, any more than your long threads are. 
> > Some of us have a lot to learn about headers.
> >
> > Lisi
> 
> And that at times includes me. kmail isn't sending that header, but in 
> the folder menu, under properties there is a checkbox "folder holds 
> mailing list" and if its checked, then the reply button seems to have 
> been converted to a reply-to-list button, so I get the same thing 
> regardless of which button I click on, _in this folder_ only. So I've 
> learned something after all.  The bottom line to this is that I agree re 
> NG, he and his install of mutt seems to be the odd  email agent out, and 
> he should change to a newer, more intelligent email agent.  Same with 
> the Imail user a few msgs up, its time to switch, or file a bug report 
> against it.

Mutt is hardly the odd email client out there. It's been used by a *lot*
of people for a loooong time.

> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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