[mythtv-users] threaded email (was: MythTV 0.25 tuner inititialisation problem)

Joey Morris rjmorris.list at zoho.com
Sat Feb 9 16:45:57 UTC 2013


Jeremy Jones <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com> wrote on Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:27:32AM -0600:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 02/08/2013 03:47 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 02/08/2013 03:05 PM, mythtv . wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 8 February 2013 20:02, Lists wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 2/8/2013 11:45 AM, mythtv . wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    I am assuming my posts to the list are working but I don't see them
> >>>>>> myself and have had no replies??? can someone confirm please?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> If you can't see your own posts then how are you replying to them?
> >>>>> Yes your posts are making it to the list.
> >>>>>
> >>>> I am using gmail and I get to them from my sent folder. Maybe its gmail
> >>>> just being clever?
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway they are making the list
> >>>>
> >>> Yes, that's what happens when you use gmail instead of using email--after
> >>> all, what fun would it be if Google did thing like a) the rest of the
> >>> world
> >>> and b) the user would expect.  gmail won't show any of your own posts to
> >>> the list until someone replies to it.
> >>>
> >> Actually that's exactly what I would want and expect,
> >>
> >
> > Well, based on the sheer number of, "I don't know if my post went
> > through," e-mails we see on this list, I'm guessing you're the exception
> > and not the rule.
> >
> >    even though it may
> >> not be typical mailing list behavior... The reason why Gmail is so popular
> >> is simply BECAUSE Google didn't do email like the rest of the world (I
> >> can't go back to unthreaded email!)
> >>
> >
> > And here I'm doing threaded *e-mail* (without gmail).
> >
> 
> I'd be interested in what client you use for that.  The MS idea of threaded
> email is horribly broken. --> It will only sort the email alphabetically by
> the subject.  Gmail at least sorts the threaded messages by date!  Since I
> am forced to use windoze at work It has to be a client that works with that
> OS.  I found gmail running in chromium to be my least objectionable
> alternative.

I do my threading with mutt. Looks like Mike is using Thunderbird
(based on the User-Agent header in his messages).



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