Re: Documentation on L[ist reply] doesn't tell the whole truth

2012-11-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Chris Green Wrote On Thu 29.Nov'12 at 17:38:58 GMT ] On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:24:49PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [11-29-12 11:38]: ... It's not my .muttrc, it's just one list that I subscribe to which has two addresses. Only one address ever

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Will Yardley Wrote On Thu 29.Nov'12 at 19:54:15 GMT ] On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects for members who tend towards old school tools and technologies. Mutt users are obviously more likely

Re: Another question about L[ist reply]

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:55:46PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 29 Nov 2012, Chris Green wrote: What headers does L[ist reply] search for a match to what it has in the 'lists' entry? This isn't specified anywhere in the documentation (not that I can find anyway). Documentation

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Davis
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:25AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects for members who tend towards old

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-30, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:25AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects for members who tend towards old school tools and

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
[ruminations on a GMail Killer] I wonder if the feeling is not so much being daunted by Google, but rather that the thought of building a GMail Killer is not very interesting. I find that Open Source projects tend to assign small value to competition, preferring to do what no one else is doing.

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:23:58PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: There could be any number of reasons why someone might not compose a perfect message: there could be learning difficulties, some other physical impairment, someone very young and new to the concept of technical mailing lists,

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Jim Graham
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent, People actually USE that POS!? The e-mail lists (now only one left) that I've created all

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-30, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent, People actually USE that POS!?

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-30 Thread Tony's unattended mail
On 2012-11-30, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: I have heard myriad arguments advanced for abandoning or modifying email etiquette over the past ten, twenty, thirty years. None of them have ever been accompanied by a convincing rationale that demonstrates why the proposed changes are

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-30 Thread Gray Calhoun
Tony's unattended mail: (07:08PM on Fri, Nov 30) On 2012-11-30, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: [snip] people who have never bothered to learn and understand proper email etiquette, Etiquette varies based on the domain (e.g. where you are). There is not one single etiquette for the

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:08:11PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-11-30, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: I have heard myriad arguments advanced for abandoning or modifying email etiquette over the past ten, twenty, thirty years. None of them have ever been accompanied by a

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Jim Graham
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:20:00PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I killfiled all postings from google groups years ago... Well, I suppose you'll never be on my list, then (it's a support and announcement type list for the freeware hurricane tracker (JStrack) that I wrote back in ca. 1996, and

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread jim graham
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:12:03AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-11-30, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: announcement type list for the freeware hurricane tracker (JStrack) [] It's a google groups list. If needed I can change the killfile rule so that it doesn't apply to a

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [11-30-12 21:13]: ... I think the Yahoo list server can be used by anybody (I guess you have to sign up for a Yahoo account, to do admin stuff). They offer a web UI, but you don't actually have to use it -- you can subscribe to it using any e-mail

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Jim Graham
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:15:42PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: Yahoo now requires posting from a yahoo account via their smtp or from their web service, since last year some time. I have dropped all but one group, but only read. I refuse to use their web service. Strange...because one of

How to automatically send jpeg files as attachments?

2012-11-30 Thread Jeffery Small
I'm using mutt 1.5.21 on a Solaris 10 machine. Within a script, I would like to use mutt to automatically email a JPEG file as an attachment without user intervention. Is there any way to accomplish this? (And if not with mutt, then possibly with mail(1) or mailx(?)) When I try to use the -a

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Grant Edwards Wrote On Fri 30.Nov'12 at 18:20:00 GMT ] On 2012-11-30, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it was about using the GMail web thingy to