Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/03/08/13:54:03
On 8 Mar 2000, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
> > Use a decent mail software, such as Emacs, and you will have
> > References in email messages as well.
>
> By this definition, you aren't using decent mail software yourself when
> you reply to djgpp AT delorie DOT com
I use Emacs on my development machine to read and reply to all mail, but
I use Pine most of the time to actually send the messages (for mundane, but
good reasons). Pine indeed doesn't add references to email messages, only
to news groups messages.
But this is irrelevant to this particular thread. I was replying to a
message which said that lack of references in the mailing list was
impossible in principle, which isn't true.
> anything by you in this newsgroup that
> has References: has been posted to your local news server (which is not
> very good practice as those postings don't seem to propagate to delorie.com
> very reliably and so will never be seen on the mailing list).
I really cannot have any control on how my ISP's news feed works (that's
the best ISP around here, so the others are only worse). Sometimes I
have no choice but to use it, e.g. when the return address is fake or I
cannot access my mail server for prolonged periods of time.
Anyway, I don't think my personal problems are on-topic in this forum. I
do my best to overcome whatever net problems I have and help people; I
cannot do any better, take my word for it. I hope these small
difficulties do not hamper the quality of my help too much.
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