Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:32:22 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Jaskaran Veer Singh <lists@jaskaran.org>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, questions@freebsd.org Cc: postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken User Experience - online mailing list Message-ID: <BC96C183-EC6F-486A-81EC-DC53BA04F2E5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CKT0HAFSNQ3C.1X7OIZH7WI9SV@eniac.local> References: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au> <CKT0HAFSNQ3C.1X7OIZH7WI9SV@eniac.local>
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Le 18 juin 2022 07:30:08 GMT+02:00, Jaskaran Veer Singh <lists@jaskaran=2E= org> a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: >Adding to that, I'd love to see mailing list name automatically preprende= d to >the subject line=2E It helps with quickly knowing what list the message i= s from=2E >Other mailing lists (not FreeBSD) that I follow have this feature=2E > >Opinions? > >-- >Jaskaran > No we won t ever do that as it breaks dkim signatures and make many email = going through our mailing marked as spam or we have to setup complexe thing= s forcing us to recrut=C3=A9 the from field to be from @freebsd=2Eorg You can do filtering on list-id or some MUA can highlight the list-id if t= hey need to Bapt >On Sat Jun 18, 2022 at 1:15 AM EDT, Ian Smith wrote: >> Hi folks, cc: postmaster@ >> >> I've been partly keeping up with questions@ online the last year or so,= through the change from pipermail to mlmmj and attendant loss of functiona= lity, but still quite usable=2E >> >> Until a week or two ago, when the latest radical change has completely = broken the ability to smoothly traverse the latest or any previous month's = messages when read By Thread, namely: >> >> Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, th= ere are only (possibly multiple) Reply links, and Reply To links back, but = no "next / previous message in thread" links, which a) allowed full travers= al of all messages in the thread, and b) moving on to the next thread after= the last one=2E >> >> As it's recently been changed to, you have to choose, one at a time, wh= ich 'sub-thread' to view, at the end of which you're stuck=2E Unless you h= it 'back' through that sub-thread to the first and then select the next Rep= ly, which is very tedious on slow connections=2E >> >> Worse, there's no way, as before, to view the whole list again from whe= re you're up to, to choose another such rabbithole, but you're thrown back = to the very top of the list, having to page down to find your place again= =2E >> >> The only other option is to press 'back' after reading each message, wh= ere you at least can pick the next message from index, also tedious=2E >> >> If that doesn't make sense, try for yourself: >> >> https://lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-June/inde= x=2Ehtml >> >> Try the thread(s) >> >> "OT: typing with broken arm" >> >> and try reading (or skimming) all messages in that thread=2E >> >> So, can this please be restored to how it was, not with pipermail (sadl= y) but at least to where it was a couple of weeks ago? >> >> If so, I have some on-topic questions, but I must subscribe without ema= il delivery until I get a machine going=2E >> >> cheers old friends, Ian >> >> PS Please cc me on any reply=2E >
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