How come most of my posts and replies to posts doesn't end up here on the list?

When replying, make sure you reply to the list.

Default when replying is that the mail goes to the person who sent the mail, NOT to the list.

Andreas

* Rikard Johnels [05-24-05 18:37]:

I know. And thats what i do. (both originator and list)

BUT, list mail, unless specifically requested, should be replied to the *list* only. Why generate an extra copy and the extra traffic by sending the author *another* copy of a post he will see on the list anyway?

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Rikard Johnels wrote:

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 01.41, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Rikard Johnels [05-24-05 18:37]:

I know. And thats what i do. (both originator and list)

BUT, list mail, unless specifically requested, should be replied to the *list* only. Why generate an extra copy and the extra traffic by sending the author *another* copy of a post he will see on the list anyway?

Security as this list has proved me unreliable when posting. All other lists i am on never failed..

I dont WANT to sen double, but if its the only way to be sure i get the answers through to the people i discuss with...

Your message will get through. Just that there is a delay of 2 - 8 hours before it is repropagated from the list mailer.

Owen

ps Probably the US Homeland Security mob holding it up. Certainly doesn't happen on the European lists

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:21:15AM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 01.41, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Rikard Johnels [05-24-05 18:37]:

I know. And thats what i do. (both originator and list)

BUT, list mail, unless specifically requested, should be replied to the *list* only. Why generate an extra copy and the extra traffic by sending the author *another* copy of a post he will see on the list anyway?

Security as this list has proved me unreliable when posting. All other lists i am on never failed..

I dont WANT to sen double, but if its the only way to be sure i get the answers through to the people i discuss with...

the gimp-user list is running very slowly lately. i would be curious as to how many are on the maillist....

i have not configured my mailer very much, therefore, i try to answer emails that were sent to the list back to the list and emails that i know came from an individual to the individual. the emphasis should be on the "try". i can see from the headers if the email was also sent to the list or not, whether i actually look at those is another emotionally charged question.

right now, you are making a mistake i often make -- although, i think you make it on purpose. we had quite an exchange via email and most of that i think i sent directly to you and not to the list. i relaxed and typed as if i were typing to a thinking adult since there were words in the emails that did not fit on a public mail list -- installing things can be frustrating.

can i ask that you paste some (perhaps not all) of the spew you got from when you tried to install the gimp-perl tarball? not only is the line about the cat interesting, but also the "install pdl" and "please do not install the pdl" error messages. send this to the whole list and await for the list to mail it out.

i was apologizing to you (directly) for suse, even though i had nothing to do with this distribution (to the best of my knowledge).

can i ask you personally as well as publically ... did you pay for your suse installation and what did you expect when you installed it?

carol

Von: Rikard Johnels

It has been DAYS!

I'ts not that uncommon for a mailing list to have a queue time of one or two days.

And even weeks...

This, however, can't be considered normal. IIRC, the mailing list system is slow, but not that slow. Manish Singh should be able to provide details about it (Carol, do you know anything per chance?)

Michael

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:

This, however, can't be considered normal. IIRC, the mailing list system is slow, but not that slow. Manish Singh should be able to provide details about it (Carol, do you know anything per chance?)

i do not know anything.

i suggested that we attach a household window fan to the top of the computer called beta earlier this week (it was having heat problems at berkeley) when i learned that this computer has a broken motherboard.

this was interesting news as no one has touched it since i came to california. i was also told that it is common knowledge that this computer is not able to be repaired.

i would like to know if anyone else has been able to determine a computers health without touching it or plugging it in?

carol

Von: Carol Spears

i suggested that we attach a household window fan to the top of the computer called beta earlier this week (it was having heat problems at berkeley) when i learned that this computer has a broken motherboard.

this was interesting news as no one has touched it since i came to california. i was also told that it is common knowledge that this computer is not able to be repaired.

Only for suitable values of "common", IMO... Well, as we don't know how to spend the donated money, I guess that we should consider to buy buying one (or two, to have some redundancy?) decent, priceworthy system for the mailing list, ftp and web servers gimp.org needs?

i would like to know if anyone else has been able to determine a computers health without touching it or plugging it in?

Telepathy - or, as it is not plugged in, necromancy(sp?)?

Michael

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:32:47PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Carol Spears

i suggested that we attach a household window fan to the top of the computer called beta earlier this week (it was having heat problems at berkeley) when i learned that this computer has a broken motherboard.

this was interesting news as no one has touched it since i came to california. i was also told that it is common knowledge that this computer is not able to be repaired.

Only for suitable values of "common", IMO... Well, as we don't know how to spend the donated money, I guess that we should consider to buy buying one (or two, to have some redundancy?) decent, priceworthy system for the mailing list, ftp and web servers gimp.org needs?

i would like to know if anyone else has been able to determine a computers health without touching it or plugging it in?

Telepathy - or, as it is not plugged in, necromancy(sp?)?

that is what i think also -- that there should be some power applied before it can change status like that.

i rather liked the berkeley ip when i first got started with gimp. since then, it seems like there are only 1.25 gimp people who have access to hardware there.

the way my current take what sort of nightmare i am having is this, that the mozilla people around the berkeley area will never finish with gimp resources and that they might need to be physically removed from them.

i am impressed with my own ability to figure out what is going wrong with software, i wonder if the same is true for my ability to figure out what is wrong with the people making software?

carol

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:15:15PM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:

Thats just the point!
I send a cc to the list at all times and have done so along our conversation. And they just dont show up

You have nodupes turned on in your list subscription settings. Turn it off you don't like it (this isn't the default, so you must have turned it on at some point).

-Yosh

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:

I'ts not that uncommon for a mailing list to have a queue time of one or two days.

And even weeks...

This, however, can't be considered normal. IIRC, the mailing list system is slow, but not that slow. Manish Singh should be able to provide details about it (Carol, do you know anything per chance?)

A possible reason is that mails with different From: addresses get held for moderation but nobody does moderation (at least, all my mails that had a different From: address than the one subscribed never reached the lists, and I don't assume they have all been deleted by the moderator).

So make sure you use the same From: that you used to subscribe (could be envelope-form, but I doubt that).