Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 19:38, Nigel Henry wrote: >> I sent a reply to the list, using Kmail, and reply to mailing list some 1hr >> 54 mins ago, and it's still not turned up on the list. At least I havn't >> seen any confirmation of it. >> >> Some lists that I'm on, I can send a reply, then check mail, and the mail >> I've just sent is already there, but replies sent to the Fedora list always >> seem to suffer some time delay. >> >> It will be interesting to see how quick I get a confirmation of this post. >> >> I've just checked the mail again, and it's just past 2hrs since I sent the >> reply, and still have no confirmation that it's been received by the list. >> >> This is not a complaint. I'm just puzzled by the delays. >> >> Nigel. > > Replying myself, I've got a confirmation in about 15secs from this post. > > Has this got anything to do with the way that the "To" lines are displayed, > when replying to mailing list. > > I was replying to a post, and the "To" line was as below. > > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Kmail I used reply to mailing list, and looking in the sent mail box, the > "To" line shows up as below. > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Any observations, comments, etc, usw. > > Well I've just resent the reply using: > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Again I've had a confirmation in less than 10secs that the email has been > received. > > Just what is all this rubbish that's inserted before the list address, and is > causing problems when replying to the list, using, as I do "Reply to mailing > list" with Kmail. > > I can never understand all this stuff that somehow gets inserted before the > list address. Who puts it there? > > Nigel. > The stuff before the e-mail address is supposed to be the name of the person sending the e-mail. But it is not needed. You can just send to fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxx It used to be "Users of Fedora:. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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