This is semi-off-topic, but it somewhat relates to Mutt and Mailman. I'm on
another mailing list that was recently switched from Majordomo to Mailman.
Many times when users try to reply privately to a poster they end up posting
to the list. This causes many complaints about Mailman being a poor
On Mar 11, Lorin Winchester [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
This is semi-off-topic, but it somewhat relates to Mutt and Mailman. I'm on
another mailing list that was recently switched from Majordomo to Mailman.
Many times when users try to reply privately to a poster they end up posting
to the
On 11-Mar-02 at 11:38, Lorin Winchester's inspired musing was thus :
This is semi-off-topic, but it somewhat relates to Mutt and Mailman. I'm on
another mailing list that was recently switched from Majordomo to Mailman.
Many times when users try to reply privately to a poster they end up
Quoting Lorin Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 11, 2002 11:39]:
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So is this a case of users not knowing how to properly
configure/use their MTAs, or is it a case of the list
administrator not knowing how to properly setup the list? I
posted this here since this list runs
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:38:48AM -0500, Lorin Winchester wrote:
to the list. This causes many complaints about Mailman being a poor piece
of software.
Which it isn't.
I (and others on the list using Mutt) have never noticed this bug that the
(l)users speak of, since Mutt handles mailing
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:51:15AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
These lists are majordomo, not mailman.
Oops, I was getting this list confused with yet another list I'm on that
switched to Mailman. But I posted to the correct list. :)
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Lorin Winchester
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:31:42PM +, Simon White wrote:
It can be changed.
snip reference to docs
That's what I though. Time to mail the administrator of that list!
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Lorin Winchester
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:34:32PM -0500, darren chamberlain wrote:
I'd say that it's bad MUAs being mis-configured; you can only do
so much about that. I've never seen/heard of this problem, and my
first instinct is to chalk it up to user mis-education.
This is also the way that I think.
On 11-Mar-02 at 13:15, Lorin Winchester's inspired musing was thus :
One user (one of the Outlook/AOL bunch)
said that it's just too much work to have to manually enter the address of
the poster he wishes to reply to directly, so he complains and sends private
replies to the list. It's been
»Lorin Winchester« sagte am 2002-03-11 um 11:38:48 -0500 :
to the list. This causes many complaints about Mailman being a poor piece
of software.
Well, setting the header right (ie. Reply-To: list) is hardly Mailmans
fault. It's rather the fault of the mailinglist owner for enabling
that
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:23:22PM +, Simon White wrote:
Confusion on my part. I guess I remembered being able to subscribe to the
list from http://www.mutt.org and figured that it was a Mailman interface.
Didn't you use some other reason just a few minutes ago? ;-)
I was
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