Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-12 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton schrieb: And you have the nerve to accuse *me* of being an asshole! What? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-12 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2005/08/11 / 09:23 PM wrote: No, it really isn't. The incorrect Reply-To header is generated by the mailing list server. I really didn't want to get into this thread, but this has to stop. The private email from you clearly shows you have Reply-To header which coincides with

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Aug 2005 at 10:12, A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2005/08/11 / 09:23 PM wrote: No, it really isn't. The incorrect Reply-To header is generated by the mailing list server. I really didn't want to get into this thread, but this has to stop. The private email from you clearly

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Darcy James Argue schrieb: In that case, then you are one of maybe three people on the entire Finale list who is sending properly formatted email messages -- at least by your definition. And it actually makes everyone else's life more difficult, unless you actually want double messages,

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton schrieb: Well, that's their choice, now isn't it? Why would you want to make life more difficult for Digest readers by suggesting that no one should bother trimming their quotations? What does it cost you to agree that cutting quotations to the minimum is A Good Thing? Or

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 10 Aug 2005 at 17:58, Darcy James Argue wrote: I forgot to add, when addressing someone's question, lots of people reply to the replies (not the original), so even if the list was configured to automatically reply-to the individual as well as the list (which it

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Rocky Road
What messes me up is coming up on an interesection and seeing.. HERE STOP reminds me of lots of WAY - FREE's that I drive on. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 10/08/05, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darcy James Argue schrieb: And it actually makes everyone else's life more difficult, unless you actually want double messages, so from now on you (not you, Darcy) will get double messages from me. Actually, he need not get double

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Brad Beyenhof schrieb: I'm fairly certain that gmail adds a Reply-To header to every email I send out (and that there's no way to change that), but with avoid duplicates turned on I never get more than one of each message. No, mailman is obviously not adding a reply-to header, if I click reply

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:41 AM 08/11/2005, Johannes Gebauer wrote: No, mailman is obviously not adding a reply-to header, if I click reply to your message only the finale address is put into the To field, not yours. Right. Mailman is adding 'Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu'. With David's emails to the list are

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
In my message mailman should have read Gmail, I think it is clearer then. We agree I believe. Johannes Aaron Sherber schrieb: At 09:41 AM 08/11/2005, Johannes Gebauer wrote: No, mailman is obviously not adding a reply-to header, if I click reply to your message only the finale address is

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:31 AM 08/11/2005, Johannes Gebauer wrote: In my message mailman should have read Gmail, I think it is clearer then. We agree I believe. Ah, yes -- thanks for clarifying. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Ken Moore
Johannes Gebauer wrote: I just wished Thunderbird would support selective quoting (where you select something in the original message, click Reply, and only that portion is quoted at the beginning of the reply message). Thunderbird is a great email client, but this is a huge step back from

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 8:44, Johannes Gebauer wrote: PS: I am really tired of having to cut out your address from the replies. So whoseever fault it is, you either have to live with getting individual replies twice from me, or take out your reply-to header when you send to the list, to make my

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 6:17, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 10/08/05, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darcy James Argue schrieb: And it actually makes everyone else's life more difficult, unless you actually want double messages, so from now on you (not you, Darcy) will get double

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Simon Troup
PS: I am really tired of having to cut out your address from the replies. So whoseever fault it is, you either have to live with getting individual replies twice from me, or take out your reply-to header when you send to the list, to make my life easier. Take it up with the list owner.

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 15:41, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Brad Beyenhof schrieb: I'm fairly certain that gmail adds a Reply-To header to every email I send out (and that there's no way to change that), but with avoid duplicates turned on I never get more than one of each message. No, mailman is

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:29 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: Just to clarify: the two addresses are not put there by *me*. When I send to the list, there's only one address in the Reply-To header, my own. Right. As I've explained before, Mailman adds the finale@shsu.edu to any existing Reply-To header. I

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:27 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: I' not sure I quite understand how the list software can address that, as it isn't processing the header -- the sender's SMTP server is doing it. Right. If you have 'avoid' set to Yes, what Mailman does is look to see if you are explicitly named in

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 15:49, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:27 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: But the problem is not caused by *me* -- it's caused by an incorrect configuration of the mailing list software. Well, it's caused by a certain setting in the software which would arguably be

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz schrieb: Since I keep a big archive of posts that interest me, here's what I've found in the 3,009 posts I saved from 2005: Wow, this is turning into a research project. Anyway, I feel there is enough justification that those who have reply-to headers in their mail to

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton schrieb: Take it up with the list owner. I'm not about to change the configuration of my email client to accommodate a mis-configured mailing list. I am not so sure, actually. Isn't the very nature of a reply-to header that you _want_ it to be replied to? So, unless you want

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Aug 2005 at 0:54, Johannes Gebauer wrote: David W. Fenton schrieb: Take it up with the list owner. I'm not about to change the configuration of my email client to accommodate a mis-configured mailing list. I am not so sure, actually. Isn't the very nature of a reply-to header

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Aug 2005 at 1:01, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz schrieb: Since I keep a big archive of posts that interest me, here's what I've found in the 3,009 posts I saved from 2005: Wow, this is turning into a research project. Anyway, I feel there is enough justification

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 11/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It causes problems in one of two ways: 1. it either inconveniences the people who are paying attention to remove the extra address when replying, OR 2. it inconveniences the person lists in the Reply-To along with the list, by causing

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Simon Troup
Does anyone think that's a good idea? Anyone? Doesn't affect us, it's your problem. Take it up with the list owner and let's move onto something more interesting - we're all agreed about quoting aren't we. Simon Troup Digital Music Art ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 16:42, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 11/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It causes problems in one of two ways: 1. it either inconveniences the people who are paying attention to remove the extra address when replying, OR 2. it inconveniences the person

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Aug 2005 at 1:06, Simon Troup wrote: Does anyone think that's a good idea? Anyone? Doesn't affect us, it's your problem. Take it up with the list owner and let's move onto something more interesting - we're all agreed about quoting aren't we. Well, given how much difficulty

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:26 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: The message that has the incorrect Reply-To header is not being sent by me. Yes, it is. My message to the list is correct in having my email address in the Reply-To field. Having the same address in a Reply-To header as in your From header is

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:29 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: That's not the whole picture. People who include the Reply-To can also set the list not to send a duplicate message. . . . No, the list setting only controls duplicated TO: and CC: addresses, and the problem is *not* a duplicate address -- it's

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 20:51, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 07:26 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: The message that has the incorrect Reply-To header is not being sent by me. Yes, it is. No, it really isn't. The incorrect Reply-To header is generated by the mailing list server. My message

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 20:59, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08:29 PM 08/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: That's not the whole picture. People who include the Reply-To can also set the list not to send a duplicate message. . . . No, the list setting only controls duplicated TO: and CC: addresses,

[Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Levin
Colleagues, May put forward a kind reminder for people to quote other emails more selectively? My digest, especially, ends up two or three times as long as it needs to be for all of the unnecessary quoting that goes on. Thanks. Andrew ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2005 at 17:08, Andrew Levin wrote: May put forward a kind reminder for people to quote other emails more selectively? My digest, especially, ends up two or three times as long as it needs to be for all of the unnecessary quoting that goes on. Yes, I would agree. There seems to be a

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Andrew, While I'm all for more selective quoting, in this age when virtually all email clients have mail rules or smart mailboxes or mailing list managers or thread managers, I have no idea why you or anyone else subscribes to the digest. What possible advantage does the digest have

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2005 at 17:24, Darcy James Argue wrote: While I'm all for more selective quoting, in this age when virtually all email clients have mail rules or smart mailboxes or mailing list managers or thread managers, I have no idea why you or anyone else subscribes to the digest. What

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Aug 2005, at 5:43 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: In the last couple of weeks, this list has generated around 75-100 messages a day. if you have new mail notification turned on in your email client (and there are good reasons to do so), that would been 75-100 notices for non-urgent messages.

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
I forgot to add, when addressing someone's question, lots of people reply to the replies (not the original), so even if the list was configured to automatically reply-to the individual as well as the list (which it isn't), digest subscribers _still_ wouldn't see many responses to their

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton schrieb: Yes, I would agree. There seems to be a certain laziness that sets in for people who are using email clients that put the reply *above* the quoted text. It seems that those kinds of users tend to completely ignore what is quoted below. While I don't like top posting

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:52 PM 08/10/2005, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Aug 2005, at 5:43 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Er, the mailing list software sets the reply to address on list posts to include both the list and the original poster's address. No it doesn't. (It does this when I reply to _you_ for some

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2005 at 17:58, Darcy James Argue wrote: I forgot to add, when addressing someone's question, lots of people reply to the replies (not the original), so even if the list was configured to automatically reply-to the individual as well as the list (which it isn't), digest

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Aug 2005 at 0:06, Johannes Gebauer wrote: David W. Fenton schrieb: Yes, I would agree. There seems to be a certain laziness that sets in for people who are using email clients that put the reply *above* the quoted text. It seems that those kinds of users tend to completely ignore

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Aug 2005, at 6:20 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Why would you want to make life more difficult for Digest readers by suggesting that no one should bother trimming their quotations? Well, I can't think of any reason why I would want to do that, which is why _I never said that._ What

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:17 PM 08/10/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: It does it for any post to the list that has a Reply-To header (as every properly formatted email message should). Well, since I'm in a picky mood tonight g: RFC822 explicitly states that the Reply-To header is optional.

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 10/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I don't like top posting I don't object to it at all if the quoted material is judiciously trimmed only to that which is necessary to provide context. I don't mind top-posting *too* much, but it does remind me of a joke I once picked

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Karen
Top posting On 10/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I don't like top posting I don't object to it at all if the quoted material is judiciously trimmed only to that which is necessary to provide context. I don't mind top-posting *too* much, but it does remind me of

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2005 at 18:38, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Aug 2005, at 6:20 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The Digest obviously works for many people or they wouldn't subscribe to it. That's what we usually call a tautology, David. Well, I provided a justification for why one would subscribe

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2005 at 18:46, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 06:17 PM 08/10/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: It does it for any post to the list that has a Reply-To header (as every properly formatted email message should). Well, since I'm in a picky mood tonight g: RFC822 explicitly states that the

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Aug 2005, at 8:03 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: You responded only to the latter, ignoring the major benefit in order to be insular and tell us how great your own email client is. Well, no, actually, but thanks for trying to read my mind all the same. When I described how Apple Mail

Re: [Finale] Quoting

2005-08-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Aug 2005, at 6:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 10 Aug 2005 at 17:52, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Aug 2005, at 5:43 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Er, the mailing list software sets the reply to address on list posts to include both the list and the original poster's address. No it