You all have it on my word that - with some timely advice - I will do
everything in my power to fix the slowness of the lists.
As for the reply-to thing... I'll think about it ;)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, A. I. Sinclair wrote:
> Gee guys enough already! The problem here isn't the duplicates - just delete
> them if you don't want them.
>
> The problem is more that the list is veeeeeeeerrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy slow and
> quite often a post is not even distributed. Time and again I go and have a
> look at the archives only to find several posts that I did not receive a
> copy of - now that's worth winging about.
>
> ais
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of David Denney
> > Sent: Tuesday, 09 Jan 09, 2001 9:57 PM
> > To: Mike Glover
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Reply vs. Reply All -> Difference=0
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:19:32PM -0800, Mike Glover wrote:
> > > This makes the point better than I could hope to:
> > >
> > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> > >
> > > to summarize, setting reply-to adds *no* functionality, and
> > > actually breaks things.
> >
> > It does add functionality, and I dont see that it breaks things.
> > My mail program (mutt) allows me to 'g'roup reply (like I'm doing
> > now) or 'r'eply to the reply-to header ... and it always gives
> > me the option of reply'ing to the author, regardless of the
> > reply-to header. I'v not seen any mail program that will easily
> > allow a reply to the mail-list, when no reply-to header is present.
> > I know mutt can be programed to recognize a mail list, and reply
> > to the list when you select reply-to-list ... but most people
> > dont have the functionality. I simply do not agree with the
> > statements on that web page, and most people prefer to have the
> > normal reply function maintain the conversation on the LIST,
> > not as a private message.
> >
> > > if you have a problem receiving duplicates of a message sent to
> > > a list, or you don't want to send duplicates, try using a
> > > decent MUA.
> >
> > The original complaint was about getting the duplicates,
> > and it was by a tucows person, as I recall. If he doesnt
> > want duplicates, then he should get a better MUA, yes.
> > OR reconfigure the list to use reply-to the list ...
> >
> > > -mike
> >
> > --
> > David Denney protect your freedom (while you still can)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] visit www.cdt.org and www.eff.org now
> > http://www.pagan.net/~daud/ finger me for PGP key, and use it!
> >
> > ... they can have my ssh when they pry the keyboard out of my
> > cold, dead hands!
>
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