Aquarius II on eBay didn't sell at over $400

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jan 20 07:05:30 2004

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:54, Witchy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
> > Sent: 20 January 2004 00:35
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > Subject: RE: Aquarius II on eBay didn't sell at over $400

> Like I say, this problem only started happening with the last list-upgrade.
> I've change nothing before or since. Jay, are you out there?

list upgrades can do funny things... :)

> > witchy: you didn't ever run any kind of ISP's setup software on the
> > machine from which you read mail do you?
>
> *shudder*

just checking :)

> I have a big enough problem having to run Gatesware on this machine as it
> is, never mind letting some shoddily-coded outsider manipulate my settings!
> :) If I could be arsed to work out how to install winduhs 2000 manually I
> would, just so I could understand what horrors it goes through, though that
> would probably shoo me away. I know Dreamweaver has its brickbats but it's
> only that and Photoshop that keeps me running this unreliable shite.

I just dual-boot my main desktop, linux and win2k. I only use 2k for
paint shop pro work (photoshop drives me nuts - way too bloated for its
own good!) and for audio sample editing (I haven't found a decent sample
editor for linux)

> Oh, and
> I've got several years' worth of past museum mails etc that are in Outlook
> format so I need Outlook, unless there's an open source app that's happy
> with .PST files.......

let me know if you find anything, and I'll do likewise - I'm in the same
situation. I'm just about to upgrade Evolution to see what import
formats it has, plus I need to look at what (if any) export options
outlook has (none, knowing MS). If I can get mails from outlook in plain
text format, I can script something that'll produce a unix-style mbox
format and I know Evolution will import that.

Luckily I don't need to refer to the old emails that often, but it's a
pain having to reboot when I do - it'd also be nice to get all the old
mail onto the server so that everything's in one place :)


> I just want to know why my posts end up as coming from me AND the list. I'm
> not doing it deliberately and I know it happens to others.

Looks like it is just that Reply-to field; your mail software adds it
whenever you send email and nobody elses does. The list software is then
a little broken (IMHO) in that when it receives mail it doesn't replace
an exisiting Reply-to but simply appends to it before distributing to
list members.

What mail server do you use? I suppose it's not impossible that your ISP
is adding the field, although that would seem like a very bad thing to
be doing. Setting up a different piece of mail software and seeing what
that does, or even telnetting to your mail server and sending manually
to see what happens might be a good test. I checked and the Reply-to
field is appearing in private emails that you've sent to me, so sending
to anyone you know and getting them to look at the headers would be a
fair test I reckon.

cheers

Jules
Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 07:05:30 GMT