Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: >On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> To summarize: You can click on the mailto link of any message in the >> archive and it will invoke your email client with the proper In-Reply-To >> set. That wil

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:49:34AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57:50PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>You can ask list management software to resend past messages. I don't > >>recall specifics, an

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:13:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Information provided information here: Or, even just "Information provided here:" -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/d

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:49:34AM -0700, Stephen Carrier wrote: >On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57:50PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >>You can ask list management software to resend past messages. I don't >>recall specifics, and given the recent change, they may be entirely >>obsolete. You can check h

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-23 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57:50PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > You can ask list management software to resend past messages. > I don't recall specifics, and given the recent change, they may be entirely > obsolete. > You can check https://www.list.org/ for directions. Glendower: I can call the

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bill Stewart! > A mailing list is convenient for self-subscription and replies, but > replying to a past message (one that's "already gone by" as stated > above) is not really possible (that I know of?). You can ask list management software to resend past messages. I don't recall speci

Mailing list musings (was Re: Two naive questions)

2020-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:33:59PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >On 2020-04-20 14:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on >>> the >>> previous server and archive, and

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-21 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 14:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >> The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on >> the >> previous server and archive, and that is true of most archives that do not >> allow >> replies: pr

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-21 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 04:09:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click > on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be > opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the list > then replac

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: >>With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click >>on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be >>opened with correct "In-Reply-To"

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: > With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click > on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be > opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the list > then replace the "To

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >The new server ml archive does not seem to offer the metadata available on the >previous server and archive, and that is true of most archives that do not >allow >replies: probably a good way to reduce space required by 50-90%, from wh

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:41:32AM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: >>I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join an >>existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not >>subscribed to the list. >> >>Joining th

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations > > prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a > > possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP a

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a possibility, but many [most?] organizations block NNTP access for content management and security reasons.) One of the ot

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-20 11:20, Stephen Carrier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Stephen Carrier! I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated threads. >> >>> When you start a

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote: > I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join > an existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not > subscribed to the list. > > Joining the list after seeing a question one would like to answer > doesn

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-20 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:44:30PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Stephen Carrier! > >> I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated > >> threads. > > > When you start a new thread, do not reply to existing threads.

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:21:56PM +, Fergus Daly wrote: >2. Since when the new look provided by >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/ ? >Is there a way to default to the "legacy" look provided at, say, >https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2019-04/ >but not obviously available today (even

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-17 12:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen Carrier! >> I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated >> threads. > When you start a new thread, do not reply to existing threads. > It's that simple. Indeed - proper mail and news readers use References

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stephen Carrier! > I remember having had the same confusion the first few times I initiated > threads. When you start a new thread, do not reply to existing threads. It's that simple. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 17, 2020 21:15:44 Sorry for my terrible english..

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-17 Thread Stephen Carrier
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:10:51AM +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > Am 16.04.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Fergus Daly via Cygwin: > > I've been reading/writing to this list since 2001 or maybe earlier and have > > only just Subscribe'd. Mainly because I have been aware when contributing > > to a

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-17 05:17, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: >>> usually it is just reply to the list on your mail program. > Yeah, I now see how it all works. Thank you. When Reply List doesn't work, pick Reply All and trim the To and Reply To addresses to just the list address, and maybe a CC to what may

Re: Two naive questions

2020-04-16 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
Am 16.04.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Fergus Daly via Cygwin: I've been reading/writing to this list since 2001 or maybe earlier and have only just Subscribe'd. Mainly because I have been aware when contributing to a thread I have always broken it by not using Follow-up properly, just artificially in