Thread: Re: No easy way to join discussion in existing thread when not subscribed
On 10/02/2015 05:04 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote: >> Amir Rohan (amir.rohan@mail.com) wrote: > >>> I added a blurb to the wiki about this. What about the "Mail me >>> this message" proposed earlier? I'd be glad to help make that >>> happen. >> >> I don't think anyone's really against that idea, except perhaps >> that we need to try and avoid letting it be abused. >> >> Of course, someone needs to implement it. > > I apologize if someone already pointed this out and I missed it in > skimming this thread, but Majordomo lets you log in (using the I did. Although I showed how you could do it via email to majordomo. Good to know. > password it sent you when you subscribed to the list) and (re-)send > an email to your own email address. > > (1) Click the link at the bottom of most any email; e.g.: > > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > > (2) Sign in. > > (3) Click on "Mailing Lists" > > (4) Click the right list. > > (5) Click on "Summary" to the right of "Message Archives". > > (6) Drill down (through whichever search path you find most > convenient) to the right email, and click the link to it. > > (7) Click the "Mail this message" link at the bottom. > vs. 1) Click the "Send me this email" link on the page your already on. I think that would be significantly more convenient. > Now, perhaps this could be made more convenient, but it's not as > bad as the process described earlier in the thread. I've done it a > few times, and (having found how to do it) it just takes me a > minute to log in to Majordomo and another minute per email I want > to receive. > The process I listed above (partly satirical) was not only about following the procedure, but *discovering* what that procedure actually *is*. The fact that people experience that precisely when they are motivated to join the community for the first time is really unfortunate, and I want it fixed. I certainly would have appreciated it when I went throught it (Last week). The fact that you *can* do it by one semi-lengthy procedure or another is beside the point. > That's not to say that new mbox options would be a bad thing. Several people who expressed the same interest, but no one has volunteered to implement what was finally agreed on. Amir
This is a very, very odd thread in which to be omitting the References: and In-Reply-To: headers. What's wrong with your email client? -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 at 5:33 PM > From: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> > This is a very, very odd thread in which to be omitting the References: > and In-Reply-To: headers. What's wrong with your email client? This webmail provider is awful (and gmail/hotmail/foo are out of the question). They randomly block outgoing smtp so I'm forced to you use their web interface which disrupts my emails in every possible way. I tried a new form of "attack" with this email, if it works I'll use it from now on. I'm very sorry. Amir
Amir Rohan wrote: > > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 at 5:33 PM > > From: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> > > > This is a very, very odd thread in which to be omitting the References: > > and In-Reply-To: headers. What's wrong with your email client? > > This webmail provider is awful (and gmail/hotmail/foo > are out of the question). They randomly block outgoing smtp so > I'm forced to you use their web interface which disrupts > my emails in every possible way. Uh, that's horrible. Ooh, I see in the mail.com website that it belongs to 1&1. Interesting. (Some guys from that company run a PUG in Karlsruhe, DE.) I've had the misfortune of using their email systems and they are truly troublesome. > I tried a new form of "attack" with this email, if it works > I'll use it from now on. I'm very sorry. Yes, it seems to work now, thanks. I hope they don't block it in the future. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services