Keith Whaley wrote:
William Morrison wrote:
Keith Whaley wrote:
William Morrison wrote:
James wrote:
/snip/
What you said is very true but as you can see or maybe can't see is
that I am not responding to you thru the NG this time but using the
list to do so and that your not going to get a direct mailing of it
because I simply clicked on "reply all" and then deleted your address
from the sending address bar. I'm not sure how the list is setup but
know from experience with Yahoo Groups that this problem may not be a
problem of SeaMonkey's but of Google's where the list, I believe,
originates and a simple change in the settings of the "reply to"
preference by the moderator of the list could repair.
That's possible. I guess that first the oddity of the action of having a
mail-list as well as a newsgroup mirroring each other's messages must be
resolved.
IOW, what does the newsgroup do that the email list couldn't, or doesn't
already?
The groups were set up as newsgroups, the mailing list is the mirror,
rather then the other way around. The main advantage of using the news
server is ease of access, as opposed to clogging your inbox with every
post to the group, whether you are interested in it or not.
In the newsgroup interface, you can set the posts to be viewed as
threaded, so replies are organized by topic, making it easy to keep
track of the support issue in question. You can set the group to view
only threads with unread posts, so you can easily find new topics, or
replies to old topics. If you want to find replies to your own issues
quickly, you can set those particular threads to be watched, then view
watched threads with unread.
All these things can be done in an email account as well, but may not be
desirable. Regardless, the newsgroup account shows only the newsgroup
posts, not lumping it in with all your other mail.
The email list does have a digest option, which solves the hundreds of
posts a day issue, but as we have seen, plays havoc with attempting to
respond. That is what caused this thread in the first place. The
digest option is best suited for lurkers.
Does eliminating one or the other harm the participants of either? How?
Either interface can be used. Users of the mailing list interface often
have no idea that there is a newsgroup interface. Newsgroup users, who
include most of the help providers here, know the mailing list exists,
but we often forget about it, which caused some of our otherwise
friendly users to lose patience with James when his mailing list related
posting problem cropped up.
I'm on over one hundred Groups on
Yahoo and each has their settings different so I have to watch when
replying to them if clicking reply just sends it to the posting member
or back to the Group for distribution to all members.
I have several Yahoogroups as well, and I dearly wish it were possible
to access them as newsgroups. I've dealt with it by setting accounts
only for the yahoogroups, so it doesn't get mixed in with my work
related email, which is another account, my performing related email,
another account, etc.
Right. So, considering that AT THE MOLMENT I get news messages in teh
newsgroup as well as in the mail list, I'm going to quit/delete my
connection to the newsgroup, and see whether I still get messages!
If I still do, let's see what the header shows this time!
These groups were created as newsgroups, and it works best as
newsgroups. If you were going to use one and not the other, my
suggestion would be keep the newsgroup and unsubscribe from the mailng
lists. That is up to you, of course. One has no effect on the other,
as far as the system is concerned you are two separate users.
Thanks for the post.
Oh wait! I see that in THIS post's header, the newsgroup is NOT shown,
but Google or Yahoo, whichever, manages to put YOUR name on top, and
that's the person who gets any further answers, not the group at all!
Support-seamonkey... does get listed as a CC, but, not in the header of
my reply. My reply was ONLY addressed to you, personally!
So everyone can see what's happening, I'll ADD support-seamonkey... to
the header as CC, but as it was first delivered to me, to send back, it
only had your (William's) name on the mail!
There's STILL something screwed up, isn't there.
I have never subscribed via email list, not will I ever, so I cannot
speak to how it works in that regard. I do know its easy in the newsgroups.
Lee
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