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Quoting Prior Messages (Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Transistors for the A17 voltage regulator 8642B)
_*AMEN !
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*_ David K , Mr List Owner: One of things that changed from Yahoo to groups .IO. IN yahoo when using the website interface? it automatically included the prior message(s) when replying, with Groups IO the default is NOT to include the prior message without the person replying taking an extra step. IS there anyway to change the default reply format with in the IO interface? Those of us using our own mail clients generally don't have the problem but those using the web interface to reply do. I for one just delete threads that include prior continuity...more is the loss Dave manuals@... On 10/29/2018 1:13 PM, Glenn Little wrote:
This is the problem when people insist on not quoting the original message and appropriate replies. --
Dave Manuals@... www.ArtekManuals.com |
Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 18:19 Artekmedia, <manuals@...> wrote: _*AMEN ! I am reluctant to change anything, as it is like the top-posting/bottom-posting topic. Whatever changes one made would upset as many as it pleases. It is like arguing about religion - a futile exercise.? Dave.? |
Was only suggesting that we revert if possible to "Standard" which we had in Yahoo in this regard...but it is YOUR group and it is good to be king.
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Meanwhile I will wear the letters of my delete key ...DELETE...DELETE.....DELETE Dave "Religion is like a tooth brush ...everyone ought to have on e...every one ought to use it every day ...but don't ask me to use yours" On 10/29/2018 6:17 PM, Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 18:19 Artekmedia, <manuals@... <mailto:manuals@...>> wrote: --
Dave Manuals@... www.ArtekManuals.com |
Earthlink Webmail doesn't show threading, either in a browser or with their cell phone app. Neither of these are 'ancient' programs. There are times that I can't download messages before reading them, so any message without a minimum of a few quoted lines is deleted. I live in the S.E. U.S. where hurricanes and storms can take out my power or internet for extended periods. I recently went 15 days with no phone or internet, because Spectrum couldn't be bothered to fix their crappy broadband hardware. There are some one the group who are getting close to being kill filed on my Email account because of their contentless postings.
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Michael A. Terrell -----Original Message-----
From: Kuba Ober <kuba@...> |
Why should I have to change my Email service, just to please others?
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Michael A. Terrell -----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Fields <bryan@...> |
On 10/30/18 12:12 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Why should I have to change my Email service, just to please others?Your MUA is broken per RFC 2822 "Internet Message Format": 3.6.4. Identification fields Though optional, every message SHOULD have a "Message-ID:" field. Furthermore, reply messages SHOULD have "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" fields as appropriate, as described below. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice |
There is nothing I an do about that, other than change providers and try to update my information on over 100 business websites. Frankly, I think that 99% of the internet is broken due to the low grade programmers who keep screwing with the software to add unwanted 'features', and who gut what you really need.
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Michael A. Terrell -----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Fields <bryan@...> |
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bryan Fields wrote:
On 10/30/18 12:12 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:SHOULD != MUST. Both are used within RFCs and they have DIFFERENT meaning.Why should I have to change my Email service, just to please others?Your MUA is broken per RFC 2822 "Internet Message Format": But that is secondary to the fact that email was never supposed to be a discussion instrument so nobody cares threading mail messages. Especially those stored in random order in MBOX format on local machine that is usually the case for any sane person -- never ever store ANYTHING on third party server and remember that Microsoft is not an answer, it is a question and the answer is "NO!". What should and IS threaded by any sane _NEWS_reader are NEWS messages e.g. from usenet. But those are _NOT_ emails and not addressed to anybody so they form discussion threads. This is what they had been designed for. Threaded email discussions are oxymoron. Email is NOT designed for discussion threads. Emails are ADDRESSED messages from particular address[es] to another particular address[es] and their threading is a poor man's hack for proper newsgroups. Ever tried usenet? --- * * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * * |
On 10/30/2018 12:25 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
There is nothing I an do about that, other than change providers and try to update my information on over 100 business websites. Frankly, I think that 99% of the internet is broken due to the low grade programmers who keep screwing with the software to add unwanted 'features', and who gut what you really need.Changing your mail program (MUAs, Mail User Agent) has NOTHING AT ALL to do with changing mail *providers* or your email address! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA |
Michael A. Terrell
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@...> How do I change the way an Android app lets me read my email? There is only one for Earthlink's web mail. I only download what I haven't deleted, when the 300 MB inbox is close to full. Other times I have to use another computer to access it, like while in a hurricane shelter. Those computers wiped out anything you download, when you log out. Other times, I use the Android app on a KODI TV set top box, which doesn't let me download any messages. I have an archive of downloaded email going back over 20 years, but I can't always read email on my dedicated Email computer. I also have saved Usenet messages going back 21 years. |
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:00 PM Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@...> wrote:
FWIW, I have an account at .? I have gmail import all my incoming email at such that it shows up in my gmail inbox.? I see that there are instructions for gmail to suck down email from Earthlink too...? I usually access gmail through a web browser, but use the app on the iphone occasionally.? Obviously, there is an Android app.? The email stays in googles cloud.? I'm not concerned about the security, email isn't a secure medium anyway. As for threading, gmail does it just fine as long as the headers are there.? It's relatively rare that threads get broken up.? They also have semi-reasonable filtering, so I can sort lists into their own folders (though they call it labelling, the effect is the same though you can put more than one label on a given email). There's nothing stopping one getting a gmail account, never giving out the address and using it to import from other accounts.? They give me the option of sending from my drizzle account as necessary.? In fact, should I need to access my drizzle account directly, I'm going to have to call them as I've forgotten the password. |
On 30/10/18 04:38, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bryan Fields wrote:True.On 10/30/18 12:12 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:SHOULD != MUST. Both are used within RFCs and they have DIFFERENT meaning.Why should I have to change my Email service, just? to please others?Your MUA is broken per RFC 2822 "Internet Message Format": But that is secondary to the fact that email was never supposed to be aFalse. I and other people and do care about it. ALL MUAs I've used since the 1980s (on Unix, Linux and Windows) have had that capability. You may not care, but you aren't the whole world. In particular you don't get to dictate how other people use the net. Sorry about that. Sorry to appear belligerent, but that's how you come across. What should and IS threaded by any sane _NEWS_reader are NEWS messages e.g.Emails are designed to communicate information. There are many ways of communicating information. Ever tried usenet?Yes, since the mid 80s. |
On Oct 30, 2018, at 09:21, Tom Gardner <tggzzz@...> wrote:
¡°SHOULD¡± (upper case) is actually defined in RFC 2119, which says:SHOULD != MUST. Both are used within RFCs and they have DIFFERENT meaning.True. 3. SHOULD This word [¡ means] that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. So you have to have a good reason to violate a SHOULD. I bet that particular MUA doesn¡¯t have a good reason (laziness of implementers is *not* a ¡°valid reason¡±). But that is secondary to the fact that email was never supposed to be aFalse. Indeed, it doesn¡¯t get much falser than that. Discussion lists have been around for more than a third of a century. There is a proper way to participate in a discussion mailing list, and it probably is even written up somewhere ¡ª unfortunately, I don¡¯t have time to pull that reference up right now, but maybe somebody else could. (This message is mainly intended as an example of how to reply to a message on a discussion list.) Gr¨¹?e, Carsten |
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On 10/30/2018 5:42 AM, David C. Partridge wrote:
Enough already - this horse is already dead. <deliberately NOT quoting the endless discussion> --
Dave Manuals@... www.ArtekManuals.com |
Old internet saying:
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If a company provides a service to you for free, then you are their product. Gmail is free because Google (Alphabet actually) reads all of your emails for interesting information, and uses that information to create a profile of who they think you are, and what they think your sick little self might like. They then sell that profile to any company that is willing to pay for a list of people with the same perversions as you... So, try a little experiment. If you are male, engage in a gmail conversation with a friend about feminine hygiene products, plastic surgery vacations in Thailand, and baby stuff, and see what ads start to show up when you surf the web without adblocker. You will suddenly find an endless supply of ads for these things everywhere you go. Similarly, if you have google assistant enabled for voice on your cell phone, it is listening to you all the time, and is sending the audio back to Alphabet for interpretation and logging into your profile. You can even log onto your google account and download their favorite overheard conversation tidbits and keywords from your phone... [Note, if you have android, and use your voice to make your phone do anything, you have google assistant enabled, and it is listening to you.] But sure, by all means give gmail all of your email correspondence. -Chuck Harris Orin Eman wrote: ... FWIW, I have an account at drizzle.com. I have gmail import all my |
All open source email clients support threading, including pine, many IMAP providers support it server-side, etc. Email has not been ¡°designed¡± for many things because nobody had an idea what it may be useful for. Usenet¡¯s downfall is that it¡¯s a technology that doesn¡¯t add much on top of email as currently implemented. And of course the mbox format is awesome, but that doesn¡¯t preclude indices ¨C a raw mbox file is a data-exchange medium, not access medium: I like being able to search my mail at a cost better than O(N*M), where M is some measure of the cost of a comparison ¨C in most cases, you want it to be something more human-proof than a case-insensitive string or regex search. Mailbox indexing used to be poorly implemented, but that¡¯s not the case anymore. Even the iOS¡¯s built-in mail client handles it correctly, and does indexing in the background when plugged in, or incrementally, on a phone with 2G of RAM and a CPU that was hot tamales a decade ago, and is quite thermally constrained on top of that.
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I don¡¯t particularly wish that Usenet became a thing again: it seems gratuitous, and was a ¡°good deal¡± at times when servers were huge and clients were tiny (a Z80-based Usenet reader would be just fine). These days, servers are often smaller than the clients, as datacenter costs aren¡¯t trivial and renting a server with the capacity of even my current phone would be more than beer money. Even big providers like google scale and distribute their services so that the individual instances can be small. But, given an always-on, say, M68k system, even it should be able to index huge mailboxes in a modern fashion and offer very fast lookups, threading, etc. Something like a raspberry pi has no trouble with any of it. A$35 system¡ So, I¡¯d say that email as implemented and used today isn¡¯t as big of a bear as we make it out to be, when talking non-emotional terms. Cheers, Kuba 30 okt. 2018 kl. 00:38 skrev Sergey Kubushyn <ksi@...>:On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bryan Fields wrote:SHOULD != MUST. Both are used within RFCs and they have DIFFERENT meaning.On 10/30/18 12:12 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:Your MUA is broken per RFC 2822 "Internet Message Format": |
As to usenet i remember bang paths and telebit trailblazer modems
I.e. csiro!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me As for google they get all my e-commerce mail as they do a reasonable job of keeping it spam free and making sure their MTA¡¯s dont get blocked by spamhaus and other blacklist providers. The tradeoff is some degree of privacy but since ecommerce vendors will sell your marketing data anyway not much of a loss. And i have a separate private email system for the rest of my mail. |
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