Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:35:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Koskie, Sarah" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: trying to reply to specific message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Koskie, Sarah wrote: > >> Is there a way to get related messages posted properly > > Thanks. I tried the second method and it didn't work. I requested a > message and it was sent to me as an attachment. The address > automatically inserted was for the original sender not the mailing list > so I changed that to the mailing list, but, of course, my reply did not > get posted as a follow on to the message. Then MS Outlook is more retarded than I thought. Pine, for example, can easily reply to attached messages... > I also checked the earlier discussion you referenced which seemed to > indicate that I should subscribe to cygwin-allow. I tried that and > received the following: > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sourceware.org. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following > addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > cygwincom>: > ezmlm-manage: fatal: I don't accept messages at this address (inlocal > and/or inhost don't match) (#5.1.1) > > --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. You didn't read the instructions carefully enough. It said to *subscribe* to cygwin-allow, not send messages to that address. You don't subscribe to ezmlm lists by sending messages to those lists. See for instructions and a handy form. > I guess this is why most of the postings aren't properly linked. No, postings aren't properly linked because people don't bother to make them properly linked (retarded mailers, etc). > If I'm doing something wrong or there is anything else I should try I'd > be glad to hear of it. Sure. Try getting a better mailer. :-D Igor > >> as followons in the mailing list archives without subscribing to the > >> mailing list? > > >Yes. Two ways, in fact. One works with programs that understand the > >"mbox" format for e-mail (e.g., pine); the other is more generic, but > >requires some effort. > > > > >For the "mbox" method, Google for "web archives raw text > >site:cygwin.com" -- I posted a couple of recipes before (I've since > >improved on the automation of the method, if anyone's interested). > >The second method is described in a help message you get from ezmlm > >(mail to cygwincom>) -- namely, you can get a copy > >of any list message by e-mailing to > >cygwincom>. The trick is finding out the > >message number -- the "Raw text" link is helpful here as well; just > >look at the "From " line (first line of the raw text), and the MSGNUM > >will be the digits between "cygwin-return-" and "-listarch-". -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/