Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread AVee
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 21:19, Andre Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:31 +0800, Harald Welte wrote: > > > > I'm not opposed to changing the reply-to for community, if you want > > that. In fact, I have now changed it. > > > > For all other lists I'm a bit less inclined to do it, but w

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Marco Barreno
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:31:54PM +0800, thus spake Harald Welte: > Dear Hank, > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:50:03AM -0400, hank williams wrote: > > > While I agree with your argument that no header is the standard for FOSS, > > this is not the case for the reply to issue, which you did not ad

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mike Hodson wrote: > Why not reply to all? Because im rather sure I don't want to reply to > the author twice Well, I want you to reply to me twice, reason being that one copy goes into my "openmoko" folder and the other goes into my "inbox". This way, I know this is not just another boring email i

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Andre Schmidt
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:31 +0800, Harald Welte wrote: > Dear Hank, > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:50:03AM -0400, hank williams wrote: > > > While I agree with your argument that no header is the standard for FOSS, > > this is not the case for the reply to issue, which you did not address. As I

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread hank williams
Harald, While I agree with your argument that no header is the standard for FOSS, this is not the case for the reply to issue, which you did not address. As I said earlier, the Apache groups (perhaps the largest FOSS umbrella) for example, and many (most?) others do not have the default reply-to g

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Harald Welte
Dear Hank, On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:50:03AM -0400, hank williams wrote: > While I agree with your argument that no header is the standard for FOSS, > this is not the case for the reply to issue, which you did not address. As I > said earlier, the Apache groups (perhaps the largest FOSS umbrell

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Marco Barreno
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:19:55AM +0100, thus spake Giles Jones: > It's only affecting GMail messages. It's mostly Gmail messages that are being affected, but not entirely. A recent non-Gmail message that was duplicated was sent by mokoNinja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 8/16 with: Subject: "Re: Finger

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-20 Thread Harald Welte
Hi! For the various reasons cited in the many mails on this subject, there is a general concensus in the FOSS community and among maybe the hacking community in general _not_ to add subject prefixes. Filtering can be done on List-ID header (or with other commonly-used list software on Mailing-Li

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-16 Thread Lavergne Thomas
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:29:33PM -0400, hank williams wrote: > [...] > A "bad idea" that most other high volume mailing lists do. > [...] > A "bad idea" that most other high volume mailing lists do. > [...] 50 billions of flies eat shit, they can't be wrong... The majority doesn't always now th

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-16 Thread Jay Vaughan
i hate this idea of adding tags to the subject: line. there is nothing wrong with checking 'any header' for "community@lists.openmoko.org" and if its found, put it in its own folder. If you can search for a "[subjectag]", you can search for an email address: thus, [subjecttag] is redundan

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-16 Thread Ben Burdette
Karsten Ensinger wrote: Maybe you should switch to this (or improve your configuration): https://removedupes.mozdev.org/ I use this extension to thunderbird with success. The suggestion of the extension seems to contain some smart algorithms. The already read messages are preselected for keep

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-16 Thread Karsten Ensinger
Ben Burdette wrote: Nick Johnson wrote: On 8/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16 Aug 2007, at 00:07, Nick Johnson wrote: The list server is clearly the issue here, failing to accept messages in a timely fashion. It's only affecting GMail messages. I believe

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-16 Thread Ben Burdette
Nick Johnson wrote: On 8/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16 Aug 2007, at 00:07, Nick Johnson wrote: The list server is clearly the issue here, failing to accept messages in a timely fashion. It's only affecting GMail messages. I believe people with provid

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Nick Johnson
On 8/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 Aug 2007, at 00:07, Nick Johnson wrote: > > The list server is clearly the issue here, failing to accept messages > > in a timely fashion. > It's only affecting GMail messages. I believe people with providers other than gmail (and not just

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread t3st3r
hank williams wrote: I think that this is not useful at all. Actually it would be quite useful. I'm do not thinking so.It will waste valuable space in Subject column of message list with STUPID and REDUNDANT tags which carry no useful info at all and just wasting space in Subject column

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Aug 2007, at 00:07, Nick Johnson wrote: The list server is clearly the issue here, failing to accept messages in a timely fashion. It's only affecting GMail messages. Plus that RFC you quoted says recommended 30 minute retry but GMail is retrying every 8 minutes. ___

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Allan Savolainen
On 16.8.2007, at 1.48, Giles Jones wrote: On 15 Aug 2007, at 23:30, Nick Johnson wrote: Wasn't it established that the problem was with the list server taking ages to send an OK response to messages, and the gmail (and some other) servers simply giving up? Seems like more of an issue wit

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Nick Johnson
On 8/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Aug 2007, at 23:30, Nick Johnson wrote: > > Wasn't it established that the problem was with the list server taking > > ages to send an OK response to messages, and the gmail (and some > > other) servers simply giving up? Seems like more of

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Giles Jones
On 15 Aug 2007, at 23:30, Nick Johnson wrote: Wasn't it established that the problem was with the list server taking ages to send an OK response to messages, and the gmail (and some other) servers simply giving up? Seems like more of an issue with the list than with the client. That maybe so

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Nick Johnson
On 8/16/07, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is that one voteor twoor three.(or however many more > times your email client is going to send the same message over and > over). Wasn't it established that the problem was with the list server taking ages to send an OK response

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Robin Farine
d overand over. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Dean > > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank > williams Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:22 PM > To:

RE: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Dean Collins
age- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Torfinn Ingolfsen > Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 2:49 PM > To: OpenMoko > Subject: Re: mailing list management > > Hello, > > On 8/15/07, Allan Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Giles Jones
On 15 Aug 2007, at 20:39, Dean Collins wrote: Maybe not but at least we know not to resend the same email 20 times….. over and over……and over….and over….. That's an ongoing problem with GMail and this list. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread hank williams
> > ... why should all mailing lists change their "standard?" behaviour only > cause some minority? (poll?) of email clients dont support these > functions ? I will no longer discuss the merits of this issue, but I feel obliged to address two factually inaccurate statements. 1. Gmail is not a m

RE: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Dean Collins
PM To: Rod Whitby Cc: OpenMoko Subject: Re: Fwd: mailing list management Do the people suggesting these changes think that they really know better about how this list should be set up? Yup. ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Andre Schmidt
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 10:16 +0200, Ulrik Rasmussen wrote: > > Until my mail client gives me a "reply to list ONLY" command, I vote > > for changing reply-to to BE THE LIST. > > My email client has a "reply to list". I use KMail. mine (evolution) too. i just hit ctrl+l to answer to list... and all

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Ray Lehtiniemi
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 12:48, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/15/07, Allan Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And another 'pls don't change it'. One would think that in this day > > Here is another voice from the "silent majority" - please do NOT > change the way the list is

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On 8/15/07, Allan Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And another 'pls don't change it'. One would think that in this day Here is another voice from the "silent majority" - please do NOT change the way the list is set up. As for the "reply to" issue - either live with the way your mai

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Kalle Kärkkäinen
Hi, This is getting out of control. I thought more people would have already been through enough of these discussions so they'd know the facts and good choices. I know, it's a bitch that your favourite email client does not support all the good things in life (like reply to list). But there

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-15 Thread Ulrik Rasmussen
> Until my mail client gives me a "reply to list ONLY" command, I vote > for changing reply-to to BE THE LIST. My email client has a "reply to list". I use KMail. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Rod Whitby
Mike Hodson wrote: > Why not reply to all? Because im rather sure I don't want to reply to > the author twice (as he apparently is on the list) and I don't want to > reply to anyone else the author sent the mail to. There appears to be > no other way to use this client than simply 1 or all, not si

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Hodson
Look I'll vote for not changing the subject line; headers are wonderful for sorting. However, when I wish to reply -to the list-, I get a choice of either -to the sender- or -to the list, sender AND anyone else the bloody sender sent it to- instead of simply replying -to the list-. While the wond

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread hank williams
> Do the people suggesting these changes > think that they really know better about how this list should be set up? Yup. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Ian Darwin
x27;ll all have to put "mailing list management" in our filter lists :-) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Savolainen
On 15.8.2007, at 0.35, Christian Tschabuschnig wrote: I am a member of the 'silent majority' - this is my first post - and, yes, please leave it as it is. And another 'pls don't change it'. One would think that in this day and age all mail clients are able to filter, tag, color and/or cate

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Christian Tschabuschnig
Jim McDonald wrote: > Just so that the 'silent majority' don't lose out on this one, I would > like to point out that there are approximately 1,500 people subscribed > to this list. Can we assume that unless we hear from them their vote is > 'no change'? There are pros and cons to each system, bu

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Scott Rushforth
illiams* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Date: Aug 14, 2007 4:52 PM Subject: Re: mailing list management To: Daniel Mewes < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> I use pager notification for my e-mails and text paging in

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Rod Whitby
ou to accurately filter your incoming mail: > Thread-Topic: Fwd: mailing list management > X-BeenThere: community@lists.openmoko.org > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 > Precedence: list > List-Id: List for OpenMoko community discussion > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.op

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Ortwin Regel
with while adding them to the front would really annoy me. On 8/14/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops again. That reply to thing is a bitch. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Aug 14, 2007

RE: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Heilpern, Mark
nged to reply to the list instead. I read the page that was linked, suggesting that's a bad idea, and I disagree. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McDonald Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:26 PM To: OpenMoko Subject: Re: Fwd: mailing

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Giles Jones
On 14 Aug 2007, at 21:35, Dean Collins wrote: Lol - yep shortly followed by the human race all moving back to wearing skins and living in rock caves. Doing nothing as a 'reason' is about as dumb as you can get. They have the discussions all the time on the Linux Kernel list, people askin

mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread hank williams
Oops again. That reply to thing is a bitch. -- Forwarded message -- From: hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 14, 2007 4:52 PM Subject: Re: mailing list management To: Daniel Mewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I > use pager notification for my e-mails and text pa

RE: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Dean Collins
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McDonald > Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 4:26 PM > To: OpenMoko > Subject: Re: Fwd: mailing list management > > so I suggest we lea

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Daniel Mewes
Well this is probably the wrong place for a whole-community poll about this topic, but let me say that if the majority here really wants subject tagging, than please put the tag at the end of the subject! I use pager notification for my e-mails and text paging in Germany has a very limited message

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Jim McDonald
hank williams wrote: Oops. As usual I hit "reply to" and it went to casey personally Its broken. Just so that the 'silent majority' don't lose out on this one, I would like to point out that there are approximately 1,500 people subscribed to this list. Can we assume that unless we hear from t

Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread hank williams
Oops. As usual I hit "reply to" and it went to casey personally Its broken. -- Forwarded message -- From: hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Re: mailing list management To: Casey Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Munging

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Giles Jones
On 14 Aug 2007, at 19:48, Casey Harkins wrote: Dean Collins wrote: I do run filtering in Outlook - but I run it on subject - less processor intensive. How is filtering on subject less processor intensive than using mailing list headers? I said stuff like that years ago on the Amiga and

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Casey Harkins
Dean Collins wrote: I do run filtering in Outlook - but I run it on subject - less processor intensive. How is filtering on subject less processor intensive than using mailing list headers? And thanks Casey - I also subscribe to about 5 or 6 other lists and they all have subject prefixes

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Jimmy McMillan
Chris Kuethe wrote: On 8/14/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that this is not useful at all. Actually it would be quite useful. +1 for tagging the subject. I second that. How about [om-community]-$subject __

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 8/14/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that this is not useful at all. > Actually it would be quite useful. +1 for tagging the subject. -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? ___ OpenMoko community maili

RE: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Dean Collins
-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santiago Crespo > Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 12:10 PM > To: OpenMoko > Subject: Re: mailing list management > > El mar, 14-08-2007 a las

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Casey Harkins
hank williams wrote: I think that this is not useful at all. Actually it would be quite useful. Without such a header I am unable to *visually* distinguish between this and other mailing lists or mail. Filters are useful for organizing, but I personally prefer to see my whole inbox and

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread hank williams
> > I think that this is not useful at all. > Actually it would be quite useful. Without such a header I am unable to *visually* distinguish between this and other mailing lists or mail. Filters are useful for organizing, but I personally prefer to see my whole inbox and to view and scan all inbo

Re: mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Santiago Crespo
ays the > title of the mailing list > > e.g. “ [OpenMoko-Community]: “mailing list management”” I think that this is not useful at all. If you want to do some filtering in your mail client, there are some headers in every mail from maillist that would be useful: Precedence: list

mailing list management

2007-08-14 Thread Dean Collins
Now that the product is launched and you have (or maybe not) some breathing space can we finally get this mailing list configured properly. At the front of each mailing should be a subject pre-fix that says the title of the mailing list e.g." [OpenMoko-Community]: "ma