[SLUG] Mail Grrrr

[Gavin Baker]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 17:28, aardvark llama wrote:
> In the last couple of days I've mailed about a dozens times to the list and 
> on four or five times the mail doesn't appear. I would normally suspect 
> hotmail but I have used the account a fair bit recently and the only place 
> where stuff isn't appearing is slug. (sigh).
> 
> Also, as the volume of the group is getting faily resonable, is there any 
> way you would consider mirroring or even moving the list to a newsgroup?

Most email clients (At least mutt, evolution, mozilla, kmail and
sylpheed) handle threaded discussions just great, and visually show the
threads with link lines etc. It's also easy to have all slug related
mail filtered into its own private space (how depends on the client). 

Even high traffic mailing lists like the linux kernel mailing list (with
anything up to 700 mails/day) are handled fine with these clients.

Personally i would blame hotmail. (It also seems to not pay any
attention at all to threaded discussions, which makes it hard to follow
a thread. Alas, some versions of OutlookExpress also seem to do this...)
Can you use a real MUA with hotmail, or is the service just usable via
the web?

The archive is at http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/scarborough/ if
that is what you meant by mirrored. This information is in the header of
every mail from slug. (Pasted below)

List-Help: <mailto:scarborough-request at mailman.lug.org.uk?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
List-Subscribe:
<http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scarborough>,
<mailto:scarborough-request at mailman.lug.org.uk?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough.mailman.lug.org.uk>
List-Unsubscribe:
<http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scarborough>,
<mailto:scarborough-request at mailman.lug.org.uk?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/scarborough/>


Anyone else having problems?

Regards,
Gav