From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 20:42:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83A016A401 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99D8013C458 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 90440 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Apr 2007 20:42:00 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=XnlS821Czxs/WreYeL22PexID1Gsz7pGXi4R6rJOFXpydZ0YNIoJeYAxs8WPzThPZjtY4LjpDZCmiUz2Y1VcCzQ6BWSDdwWaBk+rFcJWuI3P84jF9Om3kCYnY4T4ezi+beXouu9yGurVAK6Skah7SAVnttcFmub7T+ZcIkScp4w=; X-YMail-OSG: b1UeWu4VM1naZtQgLcnImcS6hQs6Jc4GJLH2c0BEeYz0NI4RwqVqE7G.AmgUGTsa.b_zl_zSnwFZG.5jOqrj6cpcvYtVLaplBJNaY_8c_rAlMbinFeM8cjvNcf5sMLhD Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:42:00 PDT Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <27891BBC-15DE-4386-A6D0-2C1DE89A18E3@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <585663.90424.qm@web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:42:05 -0000 Thanks, Chuck. Subscription Options has an option "Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?" that has "No topics defined", but I don't see any list of topic categories or a way to select them. Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, L-- On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:14 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > 1) I get all email posted to freebsd-questions in my inbox > (actually, some end up in "bulk mail" folder). That's a lot of mail > to wade through. I'm trying to get a system up and running so I can > move on to the next task. I suppose I could set up some email > filtering rules to limit what comes in. You can follow the link to Mailman at the bottom of every list message, log in using your email addr (boink on the button to have it send you your password, if you don't remember it), and change your delivery preference to digest mode or even disable delivery entirely: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions In addition, Mailman sets the List-ID header recommended by the RFCs, which means you can easily filter email from the list to another mailbox, via procmail or your mail client's native filtering. > 2) To reply to an email, I have to copy/paste "freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org" into the "To" field. If I forget to do this, > my reply gets send to the sender only. > See? I almost forgot to do it for this reply. :-} Most mail clients have both a "reply" and "reply to all" capability; the local convention on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to use reply-to- all, perhaps unless you know that the other person is subscribed. > One feature I like about (some) list servers is the ability to send > a private message to another member. This comes in handy when one > person is helping troubleshoot a problem, and you don't need > everybody on the list to get involved. Nothing stops you from sending private email to someone else directly, but normally you want to CC: the list so that everyone can benefit from the advice or suggestions being made. Taking a thread to private email tends to be done more when you need to discuss private config files which contain passwords or some such... -- -Chuck --------------------------------- Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut.