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From: Ian <omega21@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list problems
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:24:12
Message-Id: 71e46d510601141912r771f8552i1227107305bfe2d2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list problems by Robin
1 I would love it if Yahoo had the space GMail did. I hate google in general.
2 ~Ian
3
4 On 1/9/06, Robin <diilbert.atlantis@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > Of course. Blame gmail. Typical. LOL
7 > That is probably what it is... If you check the gentoo-user archives
8 > it should appear there.
9 >
10 > On 1/9/06, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:
11 > > Jamie Dobbs schreef:
12 > > > Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a
13 > few
14 > > > posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists.
15 > > > I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent
16 > days,
17 > > > could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in
18 > spam
19 > > > email traffic?
20 > > >
21 > >
22 > > From your later mails, you seem to be the same Jamie who has asked
23 > > several times about a problem with xorg-X11 and an inability to compile
24 > > gnome-control-center.
25 > >
26 > > If that is the case, you are not having any problem; we've gotten the 3
27 > > repeat mails about this issue (I at least don't know how to solve it
28 > > though), but the reason the messages are not coming back to you is
29 > > because you used your GMail account.
30 > >
31 > > Gmail discards the return of your mail from the list, because it already
32 > > has a copy of this mail (in your 'Sent' folder). You will never get
33 > > mails from yourself appearing in ML threads via Gmail for this reason
34 > > (until someone replies to them, which no one has in this case).
35 > >
36 > > So there is no problem, you've just encountered a GMail 'feature'.
37 > >
38 > > Holly
39 > > --
40 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
41 > >
42 > >
43 >
44 > --
45 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
46 >
47 >
48
49
50 --
51 Cheers,
52 Ian