On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 6:58:34 AM EST gene heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:05:50 AM EST Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:31:55PM -0000, Curt wrote: > > > On 2021-12-14, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debian-user, firefox makes > > > >> it very difficult to put the list address as the To: without starting > > > >> a > > > >> new, blank msg. It puts the list in the Cc: box and will not > > > >> copy/paste it to the To: box w/o stripping at the @. > > > > > > > > What's a PM, and where is it? (There are too many meanings for me > > > > to guess which one applies here, even while examining Andy's posts.) > > > > > > My guess is personal mail. But who's Andy? > > Andrew Cater > > > I think he's referring to me, since I was one of the first people to > > respond to his CUPS questions (plus bonus conspiracy theories about > > Apple), and his response came directly to my personal email not the > > list. > > > > As usual I struggled to understand what Gene is asking for but I > > parsed it as something like, "I have no idea how to send email with > > Firefox such that it goes only to the list, not to you directly, so > > can you help me by not including your own email address?" > > > > Which still makes very little sense to me, but this is nothing new. > > > > As far as I can see no one needs to change how they are sending > > email to this list, Gene just needs to learn how to work whatever > > mail software he is using. > > I'm on kmail now, Which does handle replys properly. But when using FF, in > order to get the list included, you must reply-all, then clear the to: box > in order to stop the automatic PM. More useless mouse work. > > And I might add that I only made the apple comment after receiving bounce correction for typu here > msgs 3 times from attempting to post to @cups.org. Going to the site that > originated the bounce msgs, and finding that the cups mailing list was not > listed there, and the fact that the lists going away had been announced on > that list months ago, I posted the only theory I had left. If there > actually still is a cups list, lay it on me. But it hasn't been yet. > > > Cheers, > > Andy > > . And I got my sig fixed.
Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
