Re: A question on how much of my list messaging is considered inappropriate content for the lists I post to?
Mark Millard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 1/4/26 11:53, Mark Millard wrote: > On 1/4/26 07:02, Anton Shepelev wrote: >> Tomoaki AOKI: >> >>> Another thing I can mention is "broken threads". Replying as >>> top post makes traking things harder. >>> >>> I assume it could be because Mark is receiving ML posts as >>> summary. Or copy&pasting from web ML archives like I do for >>> dev-commits-* MLs. >> >> Can we ask Mark to please reconsider his posting habits and to >> reply to the correct individual messages, offering our help with >> configuring his software to facilitate correct threading? >> >> I have used three approaches: >> >> 1. Set up a server-side filter rule that puts all messages to >> and from a mailing list into a dedicated IMAP directory. >> That way, threading is preserved, the messages are out of the >> way of my main INBOX, and digest mode is not required, so >> that I can review individual messages and reply to them as >> needed. I was using Gmail filters, but they may be set up >> with other e-mail providers, and even locally (procmail, >> Sylpheed filter rules, &c). >> >> 2. Locate the individual message in the archive, take the >> Message-ID: header form it, and append it to the References: >> header of my reply. Good clients will you do that. >> >> 3. Use Gmane for both reading and posting (as I am doing now). >> >> >> > > This is a test of using gmane.os.freebsd.current from macOS > thunderbird. Use of news.gmane.io looks to be a great > suggestion for me. > > Took me a bit to identify its use of NNTP and to track down > getting such set up in something (thunderbird). We will see > if this goes through when I send. > > > I did not notice dev-commits-src-main or dev-commits-src-branches > or dev-commits-ports-main as available. So my occasional > replies to commit notices would not be made this way. > > > Added later: > > Hmm. 2nd try (after an adjustment to a setting). > Hmm. 3rd try (after quitting and launching thunderbird > and answering the application crash dialog > after the launch). > Hmm. 4th try (after an adjustment to a setting). > -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com