Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:38:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: David Cantrell <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
cc: rmh AT interlaced DOT net, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Reply-to fields
In-Reply-To: <1353351442-40209887@diablo.eimages.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970320093543.16555D-100000@capslock.com>
Organization: Total disorganization.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, David Cantrell wrote:

> > Then how would you easily reply to *just* the author?  We should
> > *discourage* replies to this list.   
> 
> If we don't reply to the mailing list, conversation would die, and 
> would be replaced by just announcements.  If we had a newsgroup as 
> well, that would be fine, but we don't.  If you want to reply to JUST 
> the author, you can cut and paste the address into the To: field.  
> This may inconvenience the senders of a very small number of 
> messages, but most of us would rather send replies to the list.
> 
> > Can't you guys just hit followup instead of reply?
> 
> If you can show me the followup button on my mail client, I'll do 
> just that.

Or ANY mail client!  I've got about 12 different email programs
installed on Linux and don't see any "Followup" button.  Now, the
newsreader is a different story, but this isn't news, its a
mailing list.


> > What sort of toy mail clients are you using?
> 
> Just the most fully-featured freely available newsreader available 
> for Windows.  Not all of us use Gnus/emacs, which is a fine package 
> but still lags years behind other software in terms of usability.

PINE all the way.  Probably the most ported email program in
existance.  Hardly a toy eh?

Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant   |                  Coming soon: dynamic-IP-freedom...
My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca

Question: How do you get talkd to work under Linux with a dynamic IP address?