Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:32 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm not even sure where to write to to ask for a Gmail enhancement (I have a few I'd like to register). have a look at; http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-09 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Thanks g most welcome. i hope you can get some results. peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Don't you think that would be a time wasting sorting practice...especially when you consider that there could be multiple unique threads, each with dozens of messages in a given folder? Most modern mail clients seem to

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Don't you think that would be a time wasting sorting practice...especially when you consider that there could be multiple unique threads, each with dozens of messages in a given folder?

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Tim: You can test for that yourself with any collection of messages belonging to a thread, remove the messages linked directly together by the in-reply-to headers. (Copy a thread to a test folder, remove the every second

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I presume that's because Gmane is a news posting service. Every genuine email client I know of supports In-Reply-To. You'll notice that posts on this list from Gmane users are usually out of

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However I see that Gmail does add the Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers, so are you sure the problem is at my end? could be, if you are saying that you notice post out of order. all seems to be well with tbird here. i have never seen where any post where out of

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread g
Kevin Kofler wrote: See reply below where it F***ING BELONGS!!! Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: What if those of us that know the value of bottom posting would simply reply as I have done above when replying to someone that top posts? How about this? ;-) and again, you can not get someone to

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm using the Gmail web interface for this list, basically as an experiment. If it's not threading properly, I'll consider changing (needless to say, it *does* thread properly on Gmail :-) However I see that Gmail does add the Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers,

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: What's sure is that KNode is not using the In-Reply-To header (only References) and Gmail is only looking for that header and ignoring References. Both behaviors suck for interoperability. (I should probably try filing

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-07 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm not even sure where to write to to ask for a Gmail enhancement (I have a few I'd like to register). have a look at; http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Then I'm somewhat at a loss to understand what you mean by threading. The linking of replies to the messages being replied to joins the entire set together into a thread. The presentation of

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:16 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Can you give a specific example where the MUA uses the References header to display messages (i.e. derives some information from it that is not present in the In-Reply-To header, other than simply copying it to further replies)?

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:16 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Can you give a specific example where the MUA uses the References header to display messages (i.e. derives some information from it that is not present in the

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Then I'm somewhat at a loss to understand what you mean by threading. The linking of replies to the messages being replied to joins the entire set together

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
Tim: You can test for that yourself with any collection of messages belonging to a thread, remove the messages linked directly together by the in-reply-to headers. (Copy a thread to a test folder, remove the every second generation of messages.) Patrick O'Callaghan: That's an ingenious

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Hummm. It leaves quite a bit open to interpretation and it would only link one message with

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Then I'm somewhat at a loss to understand what you mean by threading. The linking of replies to the messages being replied to joins the entire set together into a thread. The presentation of the thread as a visual hierarchy or whatever is a matter for the MUA.

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, not many people know that the From header in the message body may be totally different from the From in the SMTP envelope and that the From header isn't used for message transport or delivery. I would have thought that anyone that got SPAM with their own address as

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, not many people know that the From header in the message body may be totally different from the From in the SMTP envelope and that the From header isn't used for message transport or delivery. I would have thought that anyone that

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Beartooth bearto...@swva.net wrote: Would you believe that's news to me? I've been at this twelve or fifteen years, with all the exposure that implies -- and don't even recall ever hearing of that header There are lots of headers you may never have heard

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: RFC 822: 4.6.2. IN-REPLY-TO The contents of this field identify previous correspon- dence which this message answers. Note that if message iden- tifiers are used in this field,

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: if you view the headers of emails, you will find that not all use 'In-Reply-To:' as an example, your email client is; } From: Beartooth bearto...@swva.net } Message-ID: pan.2009.01.03.20.38...@swva.net } References:

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Hummm. It leaves quite a bit open to interpretation and it would only link one message with one reply. I was looking for something more all encompassing. But never mind

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
See reply below... this is a bottom post list. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:19:35PM +1930, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Beartooth bearto...@swva.net wrote: Would you believe that's news to me? I've been at this twelve or fifteen years, with all the

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
See reply below where it F***ING BELONGS!!! Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: What if those of us that know the value of bottom posting would simply reply as I have done above when replying to someone that top posts? How about this? ;-) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I presume that's because Gmane is a news posting service. Every genuine email client I know of supports In-Reply-To. You'll notice that posts on this list from Gmane users are usually out of their proper threads. Now you know why. Same thing happens with Yahoo

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-04 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Hummm. It leaves quite a bit open to interpretation and it would only link one message with one reply. I was looking for something more

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes I probably should have removed a few more headers as well to totally break it out. But, now this reply will

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-03 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:15:51 +1930, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] It's worth pointing out that RFC-standard threading is controlled by the In-Reply-To header, not by the Subject, i.e. conforming mail clients pay *no attention* to the Subject header when displaying threads. People who

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-03 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beartooth wrote: Would you believe that's news to me? I've been at this twelve or fifteen years, with all the exposure that implies -- and don't even recall ever hearing of that header if you view the headers of emails, you will find that

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Hummm Can't say that I recall an RFC that fully/adequately covers threading. Can you cite the RFC? RFC 822: 4.6.2. IN-REPLY-TO The contents of this field

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-03 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Zullinger wrote: I don't see the benefit of reiterating all of the guidelines in each message. Perhaps we need a page on the wiki that explains why a page on wiki would be great. for something *more* to reference to. but as long as a

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Tim
Ed Greshko: I've deleted the References header from this message so it should appear as a new thread. Aaron Konstam: On my machine in evolution it appears as part of the same thread. There is obviously something I don't understand about the complaints about this that people keep making.

HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Aaron Konstam wrote: You have committed one of the cardinal sins of mail list postings. You've hijacked a thread. I've deleted the References header from this message so it should appear as a new thread. Don't reply to a message, and change the subject to your choice that is

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: You have committed one of the cardinal sins of mail list postings. You've hijacked a thread. I've deleted the References header from this message so it should appear as a new thread. Don't reply to a message, and change the subject to your

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Fennix
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Support wrote: Hi, I have not setup an AP for a while and would like someone to point in the right direction on setting an AP on Fedora 10. One can only find hostapd for FC8 and not 10. Much appreciated in

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Fennix wrote: Really want to understand this question. Why does this question often appear on what gmail shows as new threads? Maybe GMail ignores the References header if the subject changed. But most threaded mail clients will assume the author knows what he/she is doing when he/she decides

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: You have committed one of the cardinal sins of mail list postings. You've hijacked a thread. I've deleted the References header from this message so it should appear as a new thread. Don't

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Yes I probably should have removed a few more headers as well to totally break it out. But, now this reply will be out of thread with your response. Bottom line People start

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 09:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Besides, I could never figure out how hitting reply, changing the subject, and changing the body, to create the illusion of a new* message is easier than just actually writing a new message. Only in as much as it avoids the person typing in

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Marland V. Pittman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: the In-Reply-To header, not by the Subject, i.e. conforming mail clients pay *no attention* to the Subject header when displaying threads. People who hijack threads and plead that they fixed the Subject line should be told about this so they don't do it again. poc

Re: HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
Marland V. Pittman wrote: There's probably enough room in the text that is appended to each mail to add: Start new messages by sending to: or To send a message: in front of fedora-list@redhat.comor something like that. The list guidelines are included in the footer (as well as on the sign up

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2009-01-02 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 00:58 +0800, Fennix wrote: Why does this question often appear on what gmail shows as new threads? That'd be down to the way gmail works, or is configured. Sounds like it's time for you to wade through gmail's configuration options, and read the help for any functions

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2008-12-31 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 14:06 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Support wrote: Hi, I have not setup an AP for a while and would like someone to point in the right direction on setting an AP on Fedora 10. One can only find hostapd for FC8 and not 10. Much appreciated in advanced! You have

hostapd for Fedora 10

2008-12-30 Thread Support
Hi, I have not setup an AP for a while and would like someone to point in the right direction on setting an AP on Fedora 10. One can only find hostapd for FC8 and not 10. Much appreciated in advanced! Alex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: hostapd for Fedora 10

2008-12-30 Thread Ed Greshko
Support wrote: Hi, I have not setup an AP for a while and would like someone to point in the right direction on setting an AP on Fedora 10. One can only find hostapd for FC8 and not 10. Much appreciated in advanced! You have committed one of the cardinal sins of mail list postings. You've