On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:29:42AM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Personally, the UK meeting posts didn't bother me in the least. Made me > want to get on a plane in fact. But the objection was raised because they > were sent outside of the PDML and landed in everyone's personal e-mail > boxes. In other words, they weren't sent to the list. They were sent to > most of the personal accounts that make up the list.
Not true. The email was sent directly to precisely those individuals who had already expressed an interest in the UK meet, and to only those individuals. But it was also sent to the PDML list at the usual address ([email protected]). The only way it can end up in anybody elses mailbox is if they have elected to receive individual PDML messages by email, rather than just digests. I don't have the time to harvest email addresses from the PDML, and in any case why would I bother - the PDML mailing list is set up for just that purpose; sending to [email protected] reaches everybody on the list. The problem appears to stem from the filters that some of those folks have set up to automatically sort PDML messages into a separate mailbox. My original message (and any group replies to it from individuals) have the [email protected] address in the "Cc:" header, not in the "To:" header. Depending on how you have set up your email filters that may, or may not, cause the message (sent to you by the PDML list distribution mechanism) to end up in your PDML mailbox. Most of the mail programs I have used have the ability to set up filters based on a wider selection of headers (typically "To:", "Cc:" & "From:") rather than just on the "To:" header. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
