Re: meta-question

2010-08-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
Louis Hinman wrote: I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian.user (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics). Recently, I logged into this forum and tried to post. My post was rejected and I was informed I needed to register. I registered as

Re: meta-question

2010-08-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Louis Hinman wrote: I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian.user (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics). Recently, I logged into

meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Louis Hinman
I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian.user (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics). Recently, I logged into this forum and tried to

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:02:22 -0400 (EDT), Louis Hinman wrote: I don't see an administrator to address this question to, There isn't one. so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: No forgiveness needed. I was accustomed some time back to post questions on

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread John Hasler
Lou writes: I don't see an administrator to address this question to... At the bottom of every article: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org I was accustomed some time back to post

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:02:22 -0400, Louis Hinman wrote: (...) However, if I try to respond within a thread where I am the OP, my response never makes it into the thread! Maybe due to this? Why aren't my posts appearing? http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=46491 This

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Louis Hinman sl...@rcn.com: I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: Along with the other excellent advice others have suggested, subscribe to whitel...@lists.debian.org, with all its resulting goodness. -- Any

meta-question for debian users

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
I can't find a webmaster contact for the linux.debian.user forum, but maybe someone can advise me about this puzzling problem. The linux.debian.user community is indispensable, and I couldn't do with out . However, I have occasionally had a technical problem that follows this pattern: On Friday

Re: meta-question for debian users

2009-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Vwaju writes: I can't find a webmaster contact for the linux.debian.user forum... I am reading your posting on the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing-list for which the administrative contact is listmas...@lists.debian.org. However, you appear to be acessing this mailing list via Google

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:26:37AM +0200, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega

Re: : META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-16 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:07:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:26:37AM +0200, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll peruse subjects I'm interested in, [deletia] Which can, with a decent MUA (e.g. mutt), be automated with scores. I'm giving mails with

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Rich Puhek
dman wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
Because It fits with my preferences more. You see, contrary to some people around here, I LIKE to recieve copies of listmail when I'm the intended recipient. The resent-from recipie puts the personal copy in my inbox, where it recieves relatively immediate attention, and yet still keeps the

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. Is that: d(elete), d, d, and CR once in awhile? Yes. The list has grown in its capacity the last months (300 msg a

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. Is that: d(elete), d, d, and CR once in awhile? Yes. The list has grown in its

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:09:43PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | dman wrote: | | On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | | | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape | | Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:09:43PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: I suppose I could try that. Problem is, I'm really an elm guy for text mail reader (not too surprising to see a :x at the bottom of my Windows emails). Of course, now I switched to Maildir/ format, so I'm back to pine. Mutt has had

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Ade Talabi
dman, I use mutt too, to manage my 1000+ daily messages. The sw is great! dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [15/08/01 at 14:49]: Anyways, I used to use elm mainly because it was simpler than pine and those were the only console mailers I knew of. Somebody introduced me to mutt one

META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread Gaelle T. Morin
Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. Is that: d(elete), d, d, and CR once in awhile? OR, procmailing certain paterns... OR, ... Looking forward for insights... -- -- Gaelle T. Morin --

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:45:15AM -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: | Well, | I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. | However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. | Is that: d(elete), d, d, and CR once in awhile? Try also ^d (kill-thread). It's faster than

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread John Galt
.procmailrc recipie: :0: * ^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user About 99.9995% effective. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Well, I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. Is that:

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Puhek
John Galt wrote: .procmailrc recipie: :0: * ^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user About 99.9995% effective. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Um, how about using: X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org instead of the Resent-From? I believe that's

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the streams)! I haven't tried

Meta-question: debian-user list Reply-To field

1997-01-01 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
I've noticed that the Reply-To field on messages I receive from this debian-user list contains the text of my e-mail address. Is this for some spam filter? My main question is this: Can I mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org or do I have to mail to the address I see in the Reply-To field?