RE EDITING FORUM POSTS

OpenSCAD mailing list-2 wrote

That is because we have two classes of users ;)

Nothing personal, but there is this technical issue with email
authentication mechanisms.

You will note that some users, including you Terry, have posts that end up
on the Forum under generic User names, e.g. "User: OpenSCAD mailing list-2
Email: discuss@lists.openscad.org" not the logged on User name (for Terry -
Terrypin) as for other users.

tl;dr Main workaround, signup for a gmail account, use it on the Forum, set
to forward gmail to your main account. But do read the bit about 'editing'
below.

You will note, (ATM - as I'm testing settings), such users actual-posts on
the Mailing-list appear as an attachment. It is the host of the users email
account that has the setting concerned. Note that gmail manages to work OK.

This may be fixed in the future, but setting up DMARC in our environment is
not straight forward.

If your a 'normal' user, whose posts end up under their real User name, you
can Edit via the More drop-down, HOWEVER!!!! when you do so the edits do not
get sent to Mailing-list users.
Edit basically corrects the archived post.

So, unless it is minor typo for posterity, you are better 'Reply'ing to you
own post, use the 'Quote' button, remove most of the quote (incl. all the
historical detritus) and show something like the dhskfnbeExample I will post
next.

OpenSCAD Admin - email* me if you need anything,  or if I've done something stupid...

• on the Forum, click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me.

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Arhhg! That was
MichaelAtOz wrote

(falsely blames auto-correct)

OpenSCAD Admin - email* me if you need anything,  or if I've done something stupid...

• on the Forum, click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me.

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MichaelAtOz wrote

Because you will note that such a correction does go to all the Mailing-list
users, unlike Forum 'Edits'.

OpenSCAD Admin - email* me if you need anything,  or if I've done something stupid...

• on the Forum, click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me.

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MichaelAtOz wrote

And just for completness, you will note such 'generic' posts show up in the
email inbox as /<Forum User name> via Discuss/, with their actual email in
the CC.

[unfortunately the CC is not available to me in the Nabble code I can
customise, and Nabble support is pupating]

and finally, re the BOSL dates, Terry I believe you will find that they are
the dates you extracted them from the zip file.

OpenSCAD Admin - email* me if you need anything,  or if I've done something stupid...

• on the Forum, click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me.

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Thanks Michael, understood. And your status reconfiguration seems to be working fine as I’m replying to this via email.

Terry

MichaelAtOz wrote

That is because we have two classes of users.

There is this technical issue with email authentication mechanisms.

It is the host of the  email account that has the setting.

There is nothing I can do with an email service that is affected. (incl.
yahoo, aol, and many more)

tl;dr Main workaround, signup for a gmail account, use it on the Forum, set
to forward gmail to your main account.

Regarless you do NOT want to edit a post on the Forum.
If you had a material error in a post/email, either use the Forum and my
'Reply' 'Quote' suggestion, or via email reply to your email and do
likewise. ie "<expletive> I meant 'do NOT', not 'do'...."

OpenSCAD Admin - email* me if you need anything,  or if I've done something stupid...

• on the Forum, click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me.

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On Saturday 22 May 2021 06:37:49 MichaelAtOz wrote:

First qualification for the latter is the recommend we do business of any
kind with gmail. I'm an old hand at that and gave up makeing gmail work
as an email server. I voted with my feet and procmail rules long ago,
and nothing I have seen since has changed my mind.  And my incoming spam
traffic is 5% of what it was then. Missing the first post of a thread is
one of the hazards here. So are 2nd posts that do not quote the firat
for context continuity.

The alternative is far worse.

I am not posting from the forum, hence the onlist reply.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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Thanks Gene. I always like feedback.

I'm an old hand at that and gave up makeing gmail work

OK.

If you can do business that way, but as the Forum & List Admin, that doesn't work for me.

For experienced email based users, I would expect they don't need coaching to find my email
address.

Let me know if I can assist further.

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On Saturday 22 May 2021 18:04:11 MichaelAtOz wrote:

I can't argue with that at all. But it does confuse me when I see a reply
that looks interesting but I did not get the first, original post, and
the reply doesn't quote enough context that describes what the OP wants
to do So I'm sitting here in the dark.  I can only guess that the O-Post
was to the forum, which I'm not a logged in member of. So my thoughts
are, that if they are going to be linked for replies, why not the
Original Post too?

There are those of us more comfy with a mailing list, and seeing the OP
would be a definite plus for list only members. I of coarse, haven't a
clue how hard that might be to accomplish. My oar to steer this ship is
a toothpick of coarse. MichaelAtOz will do as the list rules say. I am
pleased it exists, and has been most helpfull to this old new bee.

Thank you.

It is in the headers. But many do not accept email sent to that
address...

Cheers, Gene Heskett

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
  Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene

On 5/22/2021 4:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

I haven't seen any evidence that initial forum posts don't go to the
mailing list.

For instance, I got Terry's initial message in this thread, and GregL's
"Challenge" message of the 21st at 3:56am Pacific, and both of those
appear to have originated at the forum.