On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 09:56:31AM -0500, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2026, at 12:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 04:56:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:19:02PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > > > Bug or feature, it seems to be intentional as per the discussion in
> > > > the texlive change.
> > > 
> > > It took me a while to find any discussion of this, but I guess you
> > > mean this link?
> > > 
> > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-texlive2025-self-contained/165120/23
> > > 
> > > Not much discussion seems to have happened before the change.  Some
> > > happened afterwards (about how it broke stuff).  Also, it happened on
> > > an opaque website that I don't visit regularly, because that site
> > > still cannot send useful emails.
> > 
> > Sidetrack to the thread, but how are you finding the emails from
> > discussion non useful? Email is the primary way I interact with it, and
> > while it does have some quirks overall it seems usable to me.
> 
> I find them non-useful in multiple ways:
>  1. Odd-threading. It is very hard for me to figure out who is replying to 
> whom in various threads with the included email that it says "last message" 
> can be N discussions that migth be related to what the person gets

Strange, The only times I see threading problems are when moderators
move a discussion to a new thread/etc, but its usually pretty easy to
see where it came from...

>  2. I constantly find that I have to log in if I am going to reply to a list. 
> I have tried setting it up with email from client and when it works what 
> people get seems not what I expected to send.

Also strange, as I reply to the emails almost all the time and it
handles it surprisingly well. It's all pretty simple, the email has a
reply-to that sends to a discourse input so it knows what thread it's a
part of, etc. I've even replied to multiple emails, signed posts and
other things and had it work. 

>  3. I get way too may emails if I don't filter down to what I want to know. I 
> was getting every ASK and other updates for a while when I thought I had set 
> it up just to get EPEL related items. It took several 'punches' to get the 
> filtering system to stop sending too much stuff.

Yeah, most people dont want everything, just specific tags. 
You can subscribe to only the tags you want.

>  4. I probably set filtering too tight as I don't seem to get every email 
> from some discussions. I will find that the first email I get is the 3rd or 
> 4th email in a thread versus the one that opened it.

Thats also surprising, as I find it to do references headers quite well.
It might be you are sorting only by date, not by thread?

>  5. I have a hard time dealing with what my brain says in visual noise in the 
> UI and frankly get headaches from dealing with it too long. This is a 
> neuro-issue on my part in the same way that command line terminal items give 
> other people headaches or unable to concentrate.   

Well, I was specifically asking about the email interface... not the web
interface. 

> These problems come and go with the updates to the backend software, but I 
> really don't feel like spending a lot of time 'learning' how to optimize the 
> new interface due to 5. Most of my ability to focus on this is due to 
> familiarity and being able to take the time years ago to learn that area. I 
> just don't have that time these days.
> 
> This isn't a 'the software is evil and must be ditched' statement. A 
> community distribution must make choices to how it wants to continue existing 
> as people have different amounts of time and energy to contribute. 

Sure, I was just wanting to offer my help for those hitting problems or
thinking that the email interface wasn't workable...

kevin
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