Re: Newbie questions: responding to tech-talk posts

[Phil Atkin <phil.atkin@pixelanalytics.co.uk>]

Thanks to all of you.

I suspect the principal issue is that I am subscribed (sorry I omitted to mention this) - but only in digest mode.  (I recall that when I was subscribed during an earlier period, I was driven slightly mad by the stream of Emails - hence this decision).

Diverting the emails to a specific folder will help reduce the traffic, although this isn't very portable to mobile devices.

Cheers,

Phil

On 17/12/2015 16:56, J. Lewis Muir wrote:

On 12/17/15 10:16 AM, Phil Atkin wrote:

Hi,

I've been posting a few questions on tech-talk over the past few days
as I get started on a project.  I /sometimes/ seem to get an Email
when people post replies, but not always.

Hi, Phil.

Are you subscribed to the tech-talk mailing list?  If not, that's your
problem; you should subscribe because some people might reply only to
the tech-talk mailing list (i.e. not also to you) because they assume
you're already subscribed to the list.

If you are subscribed and still not getting messages, read on.

You should always get an email.  If you don't, the message is likely
stuck in an SMTP server somewhere trying to be delivered to you, or it
has been classified as spam and filed to a spam folder or discarded or
deleted or whatever happens to emails sent to you that get classified as
spam.

Another possibility is that you've changed or need to change some of
your tech-talk mailing list options (see the Tech-Talk Subscribers
"Unsubscribe or edit options" button at [1]). There are two that might
be of interest to you:

1. Receive your own posts to the list

2. Avoid duplicate copies of messages

I have both of those set to yes.

When I do receive an Email it's addressed to me and
tech-talk@aps.anl.gov, so I guess in this case I can just 'reply to
all'.

That's right.

However, if I do not receive an Email I cannot find a way to post
a response to a message on the list.  I expected to find a 'post
reply' button on the website, but can't see one.  I've tried several
RSS readers, but they don't even allow me to see the contents of the
message, let alone reply.

I'm running Windows.  What am I missing?  (Please don't simply reply
"Linux"...)

Linux certainly isn't needed to send and receive emails to and from the
mailing list.  Your problem is really that you aren't getting all the
emails.  That's what you need to resolve.

If you want to reply to a mailing list email that you didn't actually
receive, then you'd have to construct your email by hand and ensure you
have an In-Reply-To header field with the message ID of the email you're
replying to.  Even better is to also include a References header field.
You can find information about the syntax of these fields at [2].  But
really this is all just a pain when your email client will do it for
you if you have the message you want to reply to in your inbox.  So,
it's best to solve your first problem of why you're not getting all the
emails.

Regards,

Lewis

[1] https://mailman.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/tech-talk
[2] http://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html

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