On 11 August 2013 02:37, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, August 11, 2013 02:25:33 Iain Buclaw wrote: >> On 11 August 2013 00:16, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Saturday, August 10, 2013 17:31:39 Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 10 August 2013 16:52, Ali Çehreli <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 08/10/2013 08:42 AM, artur wrote: >> >> >> Apparently, posts from the mailing lists are not making it to the >> >> >> web i/f; the other direction seems to work. >> >> > >> >> > It looks to be the reverse for that sample thread: My response to Iain >> >> > was >> >> > posted from Thunderbird. (I don't use the forum interface.) >> >> > >> >> > Ali >> >> >> >> My client just so happens to be gmail. I seem to receive all posts >> >> from everyone... looks like Ali won't receive this message, and I >> >> don't expect this message to show on the forum interface either... >> > >> > gmail never sends you your own responses. Google is "helpful" and filters >> > out the messages that you send to a mailing list when they get sent back >> > to you. That's actually the #1 reason why I stopped using gmail. So, if >> > you're using gmail, that could add to the confusion. >> >> You know, I've never had that problem... and it's not *me* who's >> getting the confusion. > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6588?topic=1564 > > If you never noticed it, I'd guess that you use gmail's web interface rather > than a local client, as gmail will show your sent messages in the threading > that it does. If you're using a local client, that obviously doesn't happen, > since sent messages don't normally get put in your inbox. So, as someone who > uses a local mail client pretty much exclusively, what gmail was doing was > really annoying, particularly since it was constantly breaking up threads that > I replied in. But either you have a very different workflow (like using the > web > interface), or your e-mail client is much smarter than mine, or you just > didn't notice for some reason. > > But if gmail works for you, then great. This issue was a deal breaker for me. > It took it from gmail being annoying in some of its quirks and how badly it > interacted with local clients to being unacceptably broken. >
I guess one thing I make heavy use of filters which use tagging and archiving to make a pseudo folder structure. Essentially, all mail that matches my (fairly large and growing) filter list is archived and labelled. So all messages that get sent from this ML - as well as my own postings, *always* skips the inbox and are archived as a de facto, but then are labelled as "D Mailing List". It is also possible for threads to gain extra labels if certain keywords are used in them over time... :o) Not sure if such a set-up would work with the local client, but yes, I use the web interface. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
