[sdiy] a couple of comments...

[ASSI]

On Freitag, 13. Januar 2006 22:02, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> Second,  PLEASE don't CC me offlist with a copy of your reply to some
> thread that I just happened to post in just because the software is
> set up that way, or "reply to all" is easier,  or whatever the heck
> the reason is.  I read the list,  I get a copy of it there,  and
> there's no reason to clutter up my inbox (and make me waste the time
> downloading) another copy.

The reason really is that this list is not configured to provide a

Reply-To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl

header, so most mail programs won't recognize that this mail has come 
from a list. The standard reply is then to the sender only or standard 
reply-all to the list and the sender. Several cascades of that later 
you have a reply-all to the list and all the senders in that thread.

One solution is to filter all mail from SDIY into its own folder and 
tell the mail program that this folder holds a mailing list (that 
should also get rid of list crossposts), but a) not all mailers can do 
that easily and b) not all users know they should do that. So the 
listadmin should better configure the proper headers... There are other 
ways to configure different mail programs to recognize "listness", but 
this can be a drag if you have to do it for each list.

Meanwhile, since you seem to use KMail: configure a POP filter that 
blocks all mails that are sent to both yourself and SDIY from 
downloading. When you're convinced that this filter works correctly you  
can switch the filter action to "delete on server". I haven't found a 
way to block HTML only mails before download. You can also switch 
identities in KMail so that for all posts to SDIY you add the Reply-To: 
yourself.


Achim.
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