Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> This is not your fault. As you may recall, we had this discussion about
> half a year ago, and it boils down to people not configuring their e-mail
> clients properly to obey the reply-to directive in the e-mail headers of
> the list messages.
No, that is not the problem. Since I read my mail with full headers using
a very "raw" MUA that does *nothing* behind my back, I see what actually
happens is this: most list messages arrive with Reply-To: set to the list,
but some arrive with Reply-To: listing both the list and the author.
Since the Reply-To: header is tweaked by the mailing list software, I can't
see how it can behave so inconsistently. Since I am a hard determinist
when it comes to computers, the only rational explanation I have is that
there must be some differences in the headers of messages before they reach
the list that causes the list software to process them differently. But
of course in order to pin the problem down, one must see the messages in
their original form prior to alteration by the list software, which I cannot
do as a mere subscriber, only Jay or other list staff can do that.
MS
P.S. One thought: when I was designing my own mailing list management software,
I implemented a feature by which a list can accept posts from non-subscribers
with moderator approval. I implemented it so that it set Reply-To: header
to both the list and the author on those approved outsider posts, on the
reasoning that the author should see replies but won't see them on the
list because he is not subscribed. I don't know anything about the software
Jay uses for this list, but there is a chance that its authors followed
reasoning similar to mine and the posts arriving with Reply-To: set to the
list and the author come from non-subscribers approved by moderators.
It seems that the duplicate posts fall into two categories...
1) People who were subbed to both lists, and had one of them set to "no
email". This wouldn't be a problem, except during the member migration it
lost the "no mail" setting. So, please check if you are subbed to both
lists, and set one or the other to have the "no mail" flag.
or
2) This one seems to be what is hitting a few people. I am not sure why this
is happening... but for some people when I get an email from them and I hit
"reply", the "to:" address shows their email address AND the list. So I'm
actually responding to both places and that's why they get two emails. At
this point I'm not sure if my own laptop has started doing something
squirrely so that hitting reply picks up the list address AND the senders
address, or if it has something to do with the list software, or if it has
something to do with the senders setup. But anyways, it just dawned on me
that more than a few times when I've hit reply to a post lately, I get the
original posters address and the list address, both in the "to" box. Odd.
I'll watch for it to happen again.
Jay
On Mar 1 2005, 7:20, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > Agreed... I have an Olympus D10 I picked up a couple of years
ago...
> > one important feature is that it has an external trigger input for
a
> > "bulb". I used it to take pictures of the Aurora Australis
> >
(http://www.penguincentral.com/cgi-penguincentral/pix.cgi?target=2004)
>
> Man, I have got to get me down to Antarctica some day. I'm sure this
is a
> really stupid question, bit is that greenish glow really what it
looks
> like in real life? Amazing!
Yes, though the colours vary, and aren't static. Take a look at
AuroraWatch, especially the gallery:
http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Just got the invoice today for the classiccmp hardware upgrade.
Intel D845GVSR P4 motherboard - $61.00
Intel Celeron 2.0ghz - $70.00
Copper Pentium heat sink & ball bearing fan - $26.00
36" 80pin IDE cable - $4.00
Missouri Sales Tax - $9.22
Total - $170.22
Cost of not having to worry about that damn system locking up constantly -
Priceless :)
If anyone wants to paypal to help out... the paypal ID is
jwest at classiccmp.org
Thanks!
Jay
> >>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:01:41 -0600, Jay West
> <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>>So is anyone still getting duplicate posts besides Mr. Corbin?
> >>
Jay the duplicate posts seem to have stopped. FWIW, the only duplicates I was getting were from YOU directly (primarily on the 11/45 Switch issues...)
> > > By popular demand, and to prevent further harassment,
> > > I have made my http://www.woffordwitch.com site
> > > cookieless, sessionless, and stateless. It will no
> > > longer prompt you to identify yourself and you may
> > > now browse it anonymously.
> >
> > I an top that... some of my sites have recently
> > become contentless.....
>
> Contentless? Like how?
>
Server Crash..... Waiting for new parts to arrive in Denver.
> By popular demand, and to prevent further harassment,
> I have made my http://www.woffordwitch.com site
> cookieless, sessionless, and stateless. It will no
> longer prompt you to identify yourself and you may
> now browse it anonymously.
>
I an top that... some of my sites have recently
become contentless.....
By popular demand, and to prevent further harassment,
I have made my http://www.woffordwitch.com site
cookieless, sessionless, and stateless. It will no
longer prompt you to identify yourself and you may
now browse it anonymously.
I plan to do more site updates to better document
my project(s) in the near future.
Ashley