Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Thursday 27 August 2009 22:57:44 Terry Reedy wrote: Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. In particular, because there is no indication that it is an exact duplicate of what I will also find on the list itself. Please use reply instead of reply-all. If I do that,

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Xavier Ho
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: It would really be nice if the reply would go to the list, but for the digest versions, at least, it does not. I'm on a few other lists. The Python ones are the only ones that I have to manually change. The

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za writes: If I [use the “reply to author” command], then the mail would go just to you, and not to the list at all, which is not what I suspect you want, in view of what you have just said. Right. The common “reply” command in most mail clients means

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Xavier Ho
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.auben%2bpyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only remains to choose a mail client that knows how to use it.

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 19:04 +1000, Xavier Ho wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney ben +pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
Xavier Ho wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.auben%2bpyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only remains to choose a mail client that

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-28 Thread Nobody
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:47:50 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: I use Thunderbird, and treat the list as ordinary mail. I use reply-all, and it seems to do the right thing. Or at least if I'm breaking threads, nobody has pointed it out to me yet. reply-all may send duplicate messages to the

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Angel
Frank Millman wrote: Hi all I mentioned yesterday that I had a problem sending a message to the newsgroup via the Outlook Express news reader. Today I received an email from DaveA, which was sent to me via python-l...@python.org. I tried simply replying to the email, to see if it behaved

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
Dave Angel wrote: Frank Millman wrote: I use Thunderbird, and treat the list as ordinary mail. I use reply-all, and it seems to do the right thing. Or at least if I'm breaking threads, nobody has pointed it out to me yet. reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Ho
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: I'm not sure how the list-server decides what thread a particular message belongs to. It's more than just the subject line, since when people change the subject, it stays in the same thread. I'm just using gmail because it

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread David House
2009/8/27 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. -- -David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-08-27 07:41 AM, David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedytjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Many of us read from comp.lang.python for gmane.comp.python.general. I do not appreciate

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-27, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-08-27 07:41 AM, David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedytjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Many of us read from

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Angel
Xavier Ho wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: snip Thanks for those pointers. For example, I see a single message containing typically around 10 attachments. I do the reply-all to one of these attachments, and it handles the message body okay, the

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Terry Reedy
Terry Reedy wrote: David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Nope. I got a duplicate sent to my mailbox, which I hate. In particular, because there is no

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.541.1251404574.2854.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: David House wrote: 2009/8/27 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: reply-all may send duplicate messages to the author. Not sure of this list. I'm fairly sure Mailman deals with that. Nope. I got a

Re: [OT] How do I reply to a thread by sending a message to python-list@python.org

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes: In particular, because there is no indication that it is an exact duplicate of what I will also find on the list itself. Please use reply instead of reply-all. Better: If you don't want to reply to the author directly, and you don't want to reply to