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Re: [LUG] Laptop to TV

 

On 10/07/20 12:00, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:
On 10/07/2020 11:26, Giles Coochey wrote:
On 10/07/2020 11:17, Giles Coochey wrote:
On 10/07/2020 10:40, David Bell wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:54:24 +0100
Terence Hill via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry about that. I think I’ll probably call it a day here as I think
I’ve caused a meltdown a few times now. Sorry to be the cause of such
hassle.  I’ll sort out leaving the group.
Don't do that. "We lives an' learns."

82 years old and still learning!

David
Yes, sometimes it is easy to mis-interpret the intended "tone" of an
email, you may read it as someone melting down, but it probably wasn't
written in that way.

My thunderbird has a "Reply List" button, what I think would be a nice
feature (perhaps it already exists?), would be to bottom post when
replying to list, and top posting when replying to a single person.

And even better, it appears that the Reply-List only appears when there
is a mailing list header in the email being replied to, probably the
"List-Post" header in the email.

Anyone care to write an RFC to define a "List-Composition-Preference:"
header? That way you could configure mailman to tell the email client
what is the preferred top-posting / bottom-posting for each particular
mailing list?

Perhaps it already exists, but it would have saved tonnes of bandwidth
over the years with polite "don't top-post" requests.

You can do this effectively with identities - So in Thunderbird, I have
my main email address as an identity of this gmail email address. This
address is registered on the LUG list and is the default for "Reply
List". I have then set this identity (via Manage Identities in Account
Settings) to be plain text composition, replying below the quoted text.

However, I think I may have cause the original issue on this thread.
because I had just done a fresh install of Ubuntu and Thunderbird and
got my identities confused so was sending HTML messages replying at the
top! Sorry.

We can put policy and tools in place, but there's sometimes no
accounting for idiots like me - In IT Helpdesk speak, it's PEBKAC
(Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair).

While I'm here, does the list not email you your own posts, or is it
some setting I have switched on? I probably double/triple posted over
the last few days because I wasn't sure if the email had made it to
everyone else...



Firstly, apologies if I came across rather grumpy in my first reply .. it was meant as an observation and exclamation and no criticism of any individual - young, old or in-between!

Secondly, and somewhat in reply to the final question in this post .. the List has some very strange mangling going on as a consequence of attempted DKIM/etc for all users, and it seems a few mail providers (eg. Google) get really badly upset with this. I do get replies to my own posts (as all good ML should) but you may find that they have been mis-filed by Google somewhere (or silently dropped).

Top marks for the Thunderbird config tips .. obviously not everyone uses Tbird, and Gmail has poor support for configurability (not a real mail client). Somewhere I must have set some composition settings where replies to the list do indeed arrive at the bottom of the new message .. I can't find the option for that right now though!

Just my 2cents .. I often forget that not all of our members here have the same level of proficiency and experience with the Linux/internet ecosystems, and it is this diversity and learning from each other that makes these communities vibrant!

Cheers all!
veremitz//Michael.

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