[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] OT: list inconsistencies, was: Re: Prototype CoCo 3
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Sun Jan 15 21:10:36 EST 2006
James Dessart wrote:
> On 15-Jan-06, at 4:54 PM, Mike Pepe wrote:
>
>> I seem to be missing part of this thread.
>>
>> This seems to happen on this ML quite often- what's going on?
>
> You're probably accessing the list through the Yahoo Groups side of
> things. There are two mailing lists, the Yahoo one and another,
> hosted by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. The Yahoo list gets mirrored to the
> other, but not the other way around. It's possible that messages
> don't always make their way to you, since some people use the other
> list as the destination, when replying to messages from folks on the
> Yahoo list.
>
> The thing is, anyone on Dennis' list gets mails with the Reply-To set
> to Dennis' list, even when the mail comes from a Yahoo user. Reply to
> all mirrors the message for users on that list, since it goes once
> through the list (from the Reply-To), and once through the Yahoo
> Group (Because the To field contains the address for the yahoo
> group). So people don't tend to use Reply to all. A more elegant
> solution would be nice, but unfortunately no one has been able to
> figure a decent one out.
>
> The current solution is for Dennis' listers to always post to the
> Yahoo Group address, but then they'd have to get Yahoo accounts and
> join the group there, which some people are reticent about. There
> have been lengthy discussion in the past about this. Another solution
> is for all the Yahoo Group folks to migrate to Dennis' list, but
> again, there are some who prefer a web interface.
>
> To compound matters, I believe Dennis' list is also mirrored at
> GMane, a set of news servers, so that the list can be monitored using
> newsgroup software.
>
> There have been many arguments about all of it. They sometimes span
> weeks, or months. I imagine some of this should be in an FAQ
> somewhere. What FAQ, I don't know, that in itself should probably be
> in the FAQ too. ;)
>
> --
> James Dessart
> <http://skwirl.net/blog/>
>
Stupid question of the day: how do I get on the Dennis CoCo list?
-Mike
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