Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:17AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. It is technically feasible of course. That's not the bit I'd have doubts about. O

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 9:04 a.m., Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 07:23 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> I've been subscribed to this list for a long time and I've seen a >> change in how it is being used, which I think is harmful to its core >> purpose > > 100% agree. I'm another long tim

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 07:23 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I've been subscribed to this list for a long time and I've seen a > change in how it is being used, which I think is harmful to its core > purpose 100% agree. I'm another long time subscriber here and this is just bonkers lately. The n

Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 4:34 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> >> >> On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: >>> Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > [...] > >>> You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... t

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 4:04 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > [...] > >> Do you really think it's that bad? > > I actually agree that it is manageable. OTOH, things are > changing, and change must be tackled. > > Community is these days more di

Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...]

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: > > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: [...] > > You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with > > moral superiority syndrome. > > >

Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants ...]

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 3:47 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:37AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > >> You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with >> moral superiority syndrome. > > This is a crudely obvious flamebait. Why do you do this? >

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-19 2:18 a.m., deloptes wrote: > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> You seem pretty good a drawing a line between *good* and *bad*, always >> putting yourself on the *good* side. >> > > see this is exactly the attitude I am reffering to. > >> What if ? What if there wasn't

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: Do you really think it's that bad? Yes. I can remember back when I would wake up in the morning to have over 300 list messages on screen. And, many of those were Off-Topic but, usually, people were reasonably active in labelling them as

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:51:24AM -0700, Weaver wrote: [...] > Do you really think it's that bad? I actually agree that it is manageable. OTOH, things are changing, and change must be tackled. Community is these days more diverse than it used to be. This is a Good Thing, but it makes communica

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-19 Thread Weaver
On 19-08-2021 16:23, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:34:24AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >>What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing >>over old subject that you consider off-topic. You seem really touched by >>giving your self

Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants ...]

2021-08-19 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:18:37AM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > You see yourself in a role to correct someone ... typical for leftist with > moral superiority syndrome. This is a crudely obvious flamebait. Why do you do this? - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:34:24AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing over old subject that you consider off-topic. You seem really touched by giving your self a role as governor of a mailing list or policing what

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > You seem pretty good a drawing a line between *good* and *bad*, always > putting yourself on the *good* side. > see this is exactly the attitude I am reffering to. > What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing > over old sub

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-18 12:57 p.m., Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 14:27:13 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> >>> I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the >>> official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, >>> such a list will only serv

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
s like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I'd >> give a few more details if I was actually askinjg the question on that off- >> topic mail list. > > This paragrapgh illustrates my point. Something is suggested then taken > immediately off-topic. Al

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 14:27:13 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the > > official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, > > such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead* > > of

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the > official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, > such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead* > of off-topic conversations on this list. Does anyone think that > d-c

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 07:27:17 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. That sounds like a useful thing -- somebody could point out that a post is off- topic and

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a > > lot > > of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. > > I think the way forward this time would be to request

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a lot of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the official Debian mailing list s

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread Weaver
s to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I'd >> give a few more details if I was actually askinjg the question on that off- >> topic mail list. > > This paragrapgh illustrates my point. Something is suggested then taken > immediately off-topic. All in the space of a singl

[WAY OFF-TOPIC] Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread John Hasler
Amp-hr capacity purports to be an indication of the amount of charge (not energy) that you can put into a cell and expect to get back out assuming defined end-point voltages. It doesn't really work well as a measure of the ability of a cell to store energy but we're stuck with it for historical re

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-17 Thread Brian
why an NiMH AA battery tested to hold 18 maHrs seems to power an LED > flashilight for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery tested to hold 120 > maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I'd > give a few more details if I was actually askinjg the qu

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 06:21:30 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:36:58PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I guess the measure of the charge (18 maHrs vs. 120 maHrs) is not the > > charge "contained" in the battery, but instead the amount of charge > > required to b

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
details if I was actually > > > askinjg the question on that off- topic mail list. > > > > ... and I hope another Debian-user will be able to help you. > > Cheers! > > Thanks, I think I puzzled it out ;-) > > I guess the measure of the charge (18 maHrs vs. 1

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread Terence
for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery > > > tested to hold 120 maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can > > > that possibly be? (I'd give a few more details if I was actually > > > askinjg the question on that off- topic mail list. > > >

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread rhkramer
flashilight for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery > > tested to hold 120 maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can > > that possibly be? (I'd give a few more details if I was actually > > askinjg the question on that off- topic mail list. > > ...

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

2021-08-17 Thread Weaver
n off-topic mailing list, I'm now > puzzling > over why an NiMH AA battery tested to hold 18 maHrs seems to power an LED > flashilight for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery tested to hold 120 > maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I&#x

Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-17 Thread rhkramer
longer than an NiMH AAA battery tested to hold 120 maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I'd give a few more details if I was actually askinjg the question on that off- topic mail list.

Re: debian-user list information and guidelines : don't use CC mail list

2021-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
to be different opinions or answers provided. If > > responding to > > someone, be considerate of their time and effort. > > I would like ask opinion on a little proposal to add new rule regrading > using CC with mail list address. > > The reason is, why the sender need t

Re: debian-user list information and guidelines : don't use CC mail list

2021-01-26 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:37:59AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hi hello [...] > I would like ask opinion on a little proposal to add new rule > regrading using CC with mail list address. > > The reason is, why the sender need to use "TO" to original sender / > r

Re: debian-user list information and guidelines : don't use CC mail list

2021-01-25 Thread Robbi Nespu
dvice on this list is provided by volunteers in their own time. It is common for there to be different opinions or answers provided. If responding to someone, be considerate of their time and effort. I would like ask opinion on a little proposal to add new rule regrading using CC with mail list ad

Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

2012-07-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
T Elcor wrote: --- On Sat, 7/14/12, Camaleón wrote: However, for mailing lists and forums I prefer to use a NNTP newsreader, it does a better job. I used to do that but then switched to a web-based mail list archive. It's just more convenient for me as I don't have to downloa

Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

2012-07-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:01:09 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Sat, 7/14/12, Camaleón wrote: > >> However, for mailing lists and forums I >> prefer to use a NNTP newsreader, it does a better job. > > I used to do that but then switched to a web-based mail list a

Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

2012-07-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Mora Zyx wrote: > Maybe check out http://markmail.org/ ... Thanks, though it looks like it requires the use of Javascript and even Flash(!) to work properly. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

2012-07-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Camaleón wrote: > However, for mailing lists and forums I > prefer to use a NNTP newsreader, it does a better job. I used to do that but then switched to a web-based mail list archive. It's just more convenient for me as I don't have to download messages

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2011-01-06 Thread Doug
On 01/06/2011 11:01 AM, Lisi wrote: On Friday 10 December 2010 18:57:51 Camaleón wrote: "Camaleón" is just a nickname -a Spanish word meaning "chameleon" in English- I chose when I installed my first linux system, SuSE Linux 8.2, 7 years ago (openSUSE mascot is a gecko). I was so used to it (to

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2011-01-06 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 December 2010 18:57:51 Camaleón wrote: > "Camaleón" is just a nickname -a Spanish word meaning "chameleon" in > English- I chose when I installed my first linux system, SuSE Linux 8.2, > 7 years ago (openSUSE mascot is a gecko). I was so used to it (to the > nickname) that I kept. Tha

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:03:30 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for this >>> mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into >>> the real mailing list "To:" address (debian-us

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 10 dec 10, 03:27:12, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > > Did you also reply to the email you received in reply to your request > > to be removed from the list? > > Funny, you should ask that. After your mail, I scanned the spam and > there they were. All the confirm messages from smartlist asking m

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Jochen Schulz wrote: >> But "gmane.linux.debian.user" is an incomplete address! > It's the complete name of the newsgroup. It just happens to be available > on only one server. It's possibly available on many more than just one. My (leafnode) server, for example, takes a partial feed from gmane.

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Howard Eisenberger
I've been reading linux.debian.user on news.individual.net for years and posting (slrn) this via the mail-to-news gateway at http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate I am not subscribed to debian-user. The only list e-mail I receive is the monthly reminder from lists.bofh.it Season's Greetings,

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank McCormick: > Camaleón wrote: > >> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for this >> mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into the >> real mailing list "To:" address (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org). > > Yeah, but what address do you u

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:25:36 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:44:27 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:26:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> > Yes, I have TB set up that way. But I see that in the header that you >> > sent the message from gmail, so

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:44:27 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:26:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> I mean using as incoming/outgoing server "news.gmane.org:119" but no > >> browser needed (

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:03:30 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for this >>> mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into >>> the real mailing list "To:" address (debian-us

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:09:35 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for this >> mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into >> the real mailing list "To:" address (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org).

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Camaleón wrote: >> >> I send the messages to "gmane.linux.debian.user" (Gmane group for >> this mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms >> it into the real mailing list "To:" address >> (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org). >> > > I still take it that you sen

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:26:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Camaleón wrote: >> (...) >> I mean using as incoming/outgoing server "news.gmane.org:119" but no browser needed (although posting via http is also available), you can use a

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:26:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) I mean using as incoming/outgoing server "news.gmane.org:119" but no browser needed (although posting via http is also available), you can use any news client (i.e., Thunderbird), create a new "

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/10/2010 10:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Select the message I sent and then hit "Ctrl+U" for displaying full e- > mail headers in Thunderbird ;-) or View-Message Source this was part of your message: X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: debian-user@lists.debian.org -- Paul Cartwright

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:26:21 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I mean using as incoming/outgoing server "news.gmane.org:119" but no >> browser needed (although posting via http is also available), you can >> use any news client (i.e., Thunderbird), create a new "News" acco

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:26:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: But did you use gmane to post this response? Yep, and also "this" (look into e-mail header) :-) I send the message to Gmane NNTP servers and they re-inject it into Debian mailing list (it's a "mail t

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:26:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> But did you use gmane to post this response? >> >> Yep, and also "this" (look into e-mail header) :-) >> >> I send the message to Gmane NNTP servers and they re-inject it into >> Debian mailing list (it's a "mail t

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:48:32 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) What I do in such case is using the NNTP interface (Gmane¹) for both, reading and posting, which alleviates me from storing a heap of e-mails and also managing tons of filters ;-) P.S. Most of

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 10/12/2010, David Jardine wrote: > Did you also reply to the email you received in reply to your request > to be removed from the list? Funny, you should ask that. After your mail, I scanned the spam and there they were. All the confirm messages from smartlist asking me to confi

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:45:02AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > I tried unsubscribing by putting a mail twice over a period of 2.5 hours > > debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with the subject:unsubscribe > > and still have been getting unwanted mail. > > Now tried the web-interface

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 23:37, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 05:41:18PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Hi Joel, > I've always thought it good etiquette to ask on the list > *before* filing a bug report. You are exactly right on that point I have to concede. So now asking

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:48:32 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> What I do in such case is using the NNTP interface (Gmane¹) for both, >> reading and posting, which alleviates me from storing a heap of e-mails >> and also managing tons of filters ;-) >> >> P.S. Most of Debi

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:30:04 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: (...) Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other than if

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 05:41:18PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > shirish शिरीष: > > > > Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and > > can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to > > subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails o

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 09/12/2010, Jochen Schulz wrote: > As fas as I know, Debian lists don't use mailman. But either way: > everybody can send mail to the lists, you don't have to be a subscriber. > It's just a good idea to subscribe to the no-traffic-list "whitelist" in > order to make it past the s

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 09-12-10 11:15, Camaleón schreef: > On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:30:04 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and >> can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to >> subscribe to the list, send mails and still not recei

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
shirish शिरीष: > > Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and > can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to > subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other > than if guys explicitly address me either in To: , or in CC: . I h

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:30:04 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: (...) > Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and > can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to > subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other than > if guys expli

[OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Newbie here. I installed Debian Squeeze few days back. While there are issues and would also talk/share about them in the near future, I subscribed today to the debian-user@lists.debian.org . Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and can easily overwhelm

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2005-12-01 Thread ken hewett
hope this is right place -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2005-07-27 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I have a testing box as mail server. It is running exim4. I need to send some mail to many people, in diferent servers (in other departments). If i create an alias in /etc/aliases, i can do that. But that mail can be replied, and thats what i don't want. If someone want to reply or send ma

Re: looking for: mail list AND bulletin board in one

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Vadik wrote: I am looking for package with capabilities similar to yahoogroups (i.e. mail list AND bulletin board). Most of the packages I've seen are either maillists or bulletin board. If this would be a part of larger content management system (or can be integrated in to one) it wou

looking for: mail list AND bulletin board in one

2004-09-07 Thread Vadik
I am looking for package with capabilities similar to yahoogroups (i.e. mail list AND bulletin board). Most of the packages I've seen are either maillists or bulletin board. If this would be a part of larger content management system (or can be integrated in to one) it would be addit

Re: mozilla e-mail & list

2003-06-17 Thread David selby
Elizabeth Barham wrote: David writes: I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the "to:" personale e-mail addred, some people realy don't like i

Re: mozilla e-mail & list

2003-06-17 Thread Elizabeth Barham
David writes: > I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of > reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to > reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the "to:" personale > e-mail addred, some people realy don't like it if you don't!

mozilla e-mail & list

2003-06-16 Thread David selby
Hello, I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the "to:" personale e-mail addred, some people realy don't like it if you don't! Has anyone found a

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-13 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 13 June 2003 02:05, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 15:01]: > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 19:18, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 05:24]: > > > > You should setup your email program, to filter mails, which are > > > > addre

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 15:01]: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 19:18, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 05:24]: > > > You should setup your email program, to filter mails, which are > > > addressed to the followings: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:56:22PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 19:18, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Heh! Filtering on TO the list address and _my_ address gets 99.99% > > of this list traffic? Maybe this is a sign I should take a break for > > a little while! > > > > Really, li

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 12 June 2003 19:18, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 05:24]: > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now > > > I must find a way to keep the emails organized. > > > > > > Can s

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:40:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Don't filter on To:/Cc: if you can possibly avoid it; it's unreliable. > Use X-Mailing-List: instead. (If your filtering program doesn't support > filtering on arbitrary headers, complain to its authors.) The docs for Exim (3.35) s

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 19:29]: > Jeff Ali wrote: > >I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must > >find a way to keep the emails organized. > > > >Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all > >the mail I receive from d

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 05:24]: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I > > must find a way to keep the emails organized. > > > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Jeff Ali
What I ended up doing was just filtering based on contents. If an email has "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in it then it goes to my debian list folder under my main mailbox. This works fine, so far. Thanks for the help. Jeff Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:40, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so > > > that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that > > all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. > > I was going to set up the filter based

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I > must find a way to keep the emails organized. > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that > all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Jeff Ali wrote: I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jeff Ali wrote: I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the f

OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-11 Thread Jeff Ali
I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I must find a way to keep the emails organized. Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. I was going to set up the filter based on f

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client

2002-04-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I recently wanted to do such a thing under MS Windows, and ended up using exim under Linux because no obvious, easy solution presented itself. I put this in exim.conf: mail_list: local_parts = dsa-sf driver = forwardfile file = /etc/exim/dsa-sf no_check_local_user

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

2002-04-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:00:12PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: [snipped reason for question] | That said, could anyone give me a recommendation for the following | task to be completed /under windows/: [snip requirements list that describe a mailing list manager] How about MailMan? I like

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

2002-04-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > That said, could anyone give me a recommendation for the following > task to be completed /under windows/: > > He'd like to send out a weekly mailshot to a list of subscribers. > He doesn't want to expose subscribers' addresses to the rest of

OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

2002-04-26 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evening all. Let me preface this slightly OT mail by explaining why I'm asking this on deb-user. I'm asking for suggestions for a simple mail-shot client for windows, so that I can pass this on to a friend of mine. He's quite "into" the internet, with all the connotations that those quotes impl

Re: Debian User mail list

2000-01-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Ehren Wilson wrote: > oh and the address I want is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanx You are gettink Emails Now, Yes? Jason

Re: berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:45:31PM -0700, Ben Messinger wrote: > V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases > director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of > |/usr/sbin/list news Is list a trusted user in /etc/exim.conf? trusted_users = mail:li

berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Messinger
I am trying to get the mailing-list server "berolist" working. Setting it up includes adding aliases such as: listname : "|/usr/sbin/list listname" So you see that mail sent to "listname" gets piped to the program /usr/sbin/list , or at least that is what is suppose to happen. When I do send mail

Re: mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:36:49AM -0400, Samuel R. Scarano wrote: > Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but wants us > subscribers to help you out? I think this is considered bad form -- I > don't think the mailing list is intended to allow people to mooch help > without actuall

Re: mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:36:49AM -0400, Samuel R. Scarano wrote: > On 27 Jul, Geocrawler.com wrote: > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but want

mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

1999-07-27 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
On 27 Jul, Geocrawler.com wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but wants us subscribers to help you out? I think this is considered bad form -- I don'

programming mail list/news group ?

1999-04-09 Thread ivan
I wonder if there is a Linux specific mailing list or news group dedicated to discussing programming issues. comp.unix.programming doesn't seem quite appropriate (although I have seen some Linux issues raised there). Alternatively, if someone on this list is able to help with a small daemon progr

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