On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > I'm not sure how the list-server decides what thread a particular message > belongs to. It's more than just the subject line, since when people change > the subject, it stays in the same thread. >
I'm just using gmail because it saves me the trouble of reconfiguring the mail server every time I use a new computer (which I do at uni quite a lot). When someone changes the Subject with (was: XXX), it opens as a new "thread" on gmail. also, when someone puts "Re:" in the subject it also puts it on a new thread. The magical thing about gmail is that it seems to ingnore the first "Re:" on the subject line, and make them the same thread. I rarely have threading issues, but occasionally I do see "Re:" messages in a separate place, maybe once a month. I'd love to see an FAQ on how to handle these python.org mailing lists, with > recommendations on settings to use both when you sign up for the list, and > within various mail applications. Google found me these: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/faq.html http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html Maybe they're helpful, since that's what the python-list uses. I've only scanned for a bit and it seems comprehensive. > For example, I see a single message containing typically around 10 > attachments. I do the reply-all to one of these attachments, and it handles > the message body okay, the To/CC fields okay, What do you mean 10 attachments? O_o. I know some people like to attach a company logo in their signature. (The Aussie DLF list people do that heaps. Although some people post a hand-written sig in the attachment ... I'm not sure how smart that is, but I've seen it done.) Where are you getting these "attachments"? I haven't tried reply-all yet. May give that a try next time and see what pops up in the To: address. > usually adds an extra RE: on the subject (so it becomes RE: RE: subject). Gmail doesn't do that. Yay! (Re: is dumb anyway, and you can't prepend Re: forever. Fwd: is reasonable.) > But it defaults to the wrong From: address, so I have to change that by > hand. I don't have that problem if I reply directly to a message, say from > my in-box. Weird. I have a different problem: the "To:" Address is usually the sender I'm replying to. It's really annoying, because I always have to hand-change the To: address to python-list. I've sent two messages onto the list mentioning about adding a "Reply-to" attribute by the mailing list server, which would fix this problem. To-date everyone has seemed to ignore me. =/ > The FAQ could also cover conventions and other techniques, such as whether > to use html or plain-text for messages, how to use ** to mark a word as > bold, top-posting suggestions.... I didn't know ** marks bold. Does __ mark underline? Those are cool things I never hear about. Thanks! On another tangent, I only found out the Python Wiki on the official site today (http://wiki.python.org/moin/) Does anyone actually use it, and what for? - Kind regards, Ching-Yun "Xavier" Ho, Technical Artist Contact Information Mobile: (+61) 04 3335 4748 Skype ID: SpaXe85 Email: cont...@xavierho.com Website: http://xavierho.com/
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