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Re: [Condor-users] A few basic questions and a modest suggestion



Matt,

Thanks for the gmail info.  I'm fairly new to gmail, as well, so I'll
keep this in mind.

I am still curious about the configuration and licensing questions I
had, if anyone has any input.

Thanks again,

Darin

On 4/18/06, Matt Hope <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Darin Kalisak <whognu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > My apologies if this is a repeat, but it appears to me that it did not
> > go through to the listserv the first time I sent it.
>
> To avoid any other confusion for gmail users (of which I am one)
>
> Gmail silently hides emails it deems are from yourself if there is no
> corresponding conversation they are part of. I know of know way of
> preventing this. Bizarrely this does not apply to the pop3 feed which
> happily supplies your message. I can only assume it is an aspect of
> the web viewing application.
>
> This can be a little confusing since you cannot tell if your mail got
> through to the list.
>
> I have no simple solution to this - I have access to another source of
> updates so can always check there if I am worried. You can search the
> archives for your post to see if it came through, I don't know the
> update frequency on that bit to know how long you would have to wait
> to be sure...
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Incidentally I am a big -- to the web forum idea. I can view these
> mails from where ever I can get mail *or*  web access. I can pick what
> viewer I use and how I manage conversations/users etc.
>
> Forums remove this capability and force you to use whatever UI model
> the developers decided on (as well as loose / make you reinvent the
> concept of read messages/notifications/digests that a decent mailing
> list provides).
>
> On a subjective note I have generally found mailing lists to have
> better signal to noise ratios :)
>
> Matt
>
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