From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 16:20:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wcn4.wcnet.net (mail.wcnet.net [216.88.248.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E024153DE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jestess@wcnet.net) Received: from wcnet.net [216.88.250.116] by wcn4.wcnet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A7E22CD8009A; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:20:50 -0600 Message-ID: <385EC71E.725FC43@wcnet.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:17:34 -0600 From: John Estess Organization: compulsive or none, depending on the day X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-stable wannabe tester References: <385D9D5C.7CA03233@wcnet.net> <19991220154158.O11805@speedy.gsinet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 21:07 -0600, John Estess wrote: > > > > Why does "Reply" send back to the address of the person and not > > the mailing list? > > Because you have a poor mail frontend, no matter what others tell > you :> I've used the lynx/tin/pine tandem in Linux for a couple years when I was stuck with a Diamond card before Xfree86 supported it, and I noticed that when sorting through my mail, I sometimes missed jpeg attachments and discarded messages before seeing the attachments. Since I use Netscape anyway for browsing, using the mailer isn't a leap. At least it doesn't core dump every five minutes like the browser. It's only a mail program. Push the button somewhat longer OR (this is what I > suggest) go ahead and find a real mail program instead of a > supplement to a browser. I'm using mutt and many others in the > know do so, too (hint, hint :). Look out for those X-Mailer > Lines and compare them to what you think how experienced the > authors are wrt computers and what they expect in terms of > functionality or flexibility or suitability ... Elitism by X-mailer headings. I never thought of that one. I never thought I'd have to resort to Pine again to get any respect :-) By the way, I'm been on many mailing list and this is the only one that I have to correct the address for. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. I'm probably old enough to be your parent. [profanity deleted] -- _/ _/_/_/ || John Estess _/ _/ _/_/ || jestess@wcnet.net _/_/_/ _/_/_/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message