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Re: [LUG] Laptop to TV

 
On 10/07/2020 11:26, Giles Coochey wrote:
> 
> On 10/07/2020 11:17, Giles Coochey wrote:
>>
>> On 10/07/2020 10:40, David Bell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:54:24 +0100
>>> Terence Hill via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry about that. I think I’ll probably call it a day here as I think
>>>> I’ve caused a meltdown a few times now. Sorry to be the cause of such
>>>> hassle.  I’ll sort out leaving the group.
>>> Don't do that. "We lives an' learns."
>>>
>>> 82 years old and still learning!
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> Yes, sometimes it is easy to mis-interpret the intended "tone" of an
>> email, you may read it as someone melting down, but it probably wasn't
>> written in that way.
>>
>> My thunderbird has a "Reply List" button, what I think would be a nice
>> feature (perhaps it already exists?), would be to bottom post when
>> replying to list, and top posting when replying to a single person.
>>
> And even better, it appears that the Reply-List only appears when there
> is a mailing list header in the email being replied to, probably the
> "List-Post" header in the email.
> 
> Anyone care to write an RFC to define a "List-Composition-Preference:"
> header? That way you could configure mailman to tell the email client
> what is the preferred top-posting / bottom-posting for each particular
> mailing list?
> 
> Perhaps it already exists, but it would have saved tonnes of bandwidth
> over the years with polite "don't top-post" requests.
> 

You can do this effectively with identities - So in Thunderbird, I have
my main email address as an identity of this gmail email address. This
address is registered on the LUG list and is the default for "Reply
List". I have then set this identity (via Manage Identities in Account
Settings) to be plain text composition, replying below the quoted text.

However, I think I may have cause the original issue on this thread.
because I had just done a fresh install of Ubuntu and Thunderbird and
got my identities confused so was sending HTML messages replying at the
top! Sorry.

We can put policy and tools in place, but there's sometimes no
accounting for idiots like me - In IT Helpdesk speak, it's PEBKAC
(Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair).

While I'm here, does the list not email you your own posts, or is it
some setting I have switched on? I probably double/triple posted over
the last few days because I wasn't sure if the email had made it to
everyone else...

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Kind regards,

Mark Smith
juglugs.com

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