You are correct, Mark: I do _not_ see the footer for the list on my posts. So when I look at a thread that I've replied to, gmail only makes it LOOK like it comes from the list.
Metta, Ivan On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > > > >Yup. I'm looking at the expanded version of this thread, and the message > >before your reply and after Terri Oda's is mine. It appears as "Ivan Van > >Laningham to mailman-users", with my name in yellow (arbitrary color: > yours > >is red, Terri's is purple, Cameron's is green). > > > >Now, gmail may, behind the scenes, insert a link to the sent folder, but > >from a user's perspective it looks exactly like any other message in the > >thread, except that to the left of my name is a very small (i.e., 8x8 > >pixels) light grey round icon with a white x in it. I don't want to push > it > >in case it tells gmail "Delete the entire thread this is associated with." > > > And when you look at one of the (now two) posts from you in that > thread, do you see the mailman-users list footer that you see if you > look at Terri's post? These would be there if the message you are > seeing came from the list, but I suspect they are not and the messages > you see are actually those in your Sent folder. > > This is not important for many purposes, but it does mean that you > can't actually tell if you received a copy of your post from the list. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
