[SWLUG] Introduction

[George Currums]

hehe, thanks for the help Telsa, i shall just have to manually tap in the mailing list address each time, its no biggie.

what kind of things are discussed at the meets, solely linux, or other computer related things too? and of course general chit-chat, hehe.

thanks for all the kind welcomes guys.

.icecube

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:53:35 +0000
Telsa Gwynne <hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:45:53PM +0000 or thereabouts, George Currums wrote:
> > Thank you got the kind welcome...
> > 
> > I will be living around 20 minutes away from Cardiff and 15 minutes 
> > away from Swansea, so i will be able to attend both no problems.
> 
> We really need a better venue for Swansea: even a pub that accepts
> under-18s would do. But we haven't got one yet. We had hopes of a
> sort of community-run coffee place, but I have only ever found it
> open once. 
> 
> Perhaps we should look at scrounging a university room again, if
> we can get it free (ie: ask a lecturer or post-grad, not the
> conference department).
> 
> When it's summer, we shall just have to have a picnic or something :) 
> 
> > I have one problem, when i get an e-mail from the list and i goto 
> > reply it says it came from the person who sent it (their email) 
> > and not the mailing list e-mail address. So i had to manually 
> > replace your address with the mailing list address.
> 
> Actually, I don't think Richard's reply came through the list. 
> I didn't see it. It came directly from him. Hence hitting reply
> got you his address. 
> 
> If you want to reply to a mail from the list, you will find that
> the Reply-To is automatically to the sender, not to the list.
> Different mailers have different ways to deal with this. I see
> you are using Sylpheed (it's in your headers). I don't know
> how to do it that way. But there are typically (r)eply options,
> and (g)roup-reply options (both to list and to sender). Newer
> mailers also supply a (L)ist-reply option, so that your reply
> goes only to the list without a second copy going to the 
> original sender.
> 
> The things in brackets are the keys that produce those in mutt
> (text mailer). I don't know what the other mailers use for those
> options.
> 
> Telsa (and yes, this was sent to the list)
> 
> PS: Welcome to the list!
> 
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