[tdf-discuss] Re: Paid Developers

> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13/05/2011, discuss+help@documentfoundation.org
> > <discuss+help@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Topics (messages 6130 through 6131):
> > >
> > > [tdf-discuss] Re: Paid Developers
> > > =A0 =A0 =A0 6130 - Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com>
> > > =A0 =A0 =A0 6131 - ??? <marc@marcpare.com>
> >
> > When can someone improve mailing list behaviour with web mail clients
> > like gmail???
>
> Sorry, but what do you mean?
> Obviously the mailinglist has no influence whatsoever how a webmail or
> regular mailclient behaves.

Is this true? Surely different mailing list manager software will
function differently?

> > Even for this e-mail digest, the reply function results
> > in deletion of the original message content, apart from the text shown
> > above. This means a text editor has to be used...:(
>
> Sorry, please be more descriptive. That mail (#6131) is this one:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg06225.html
> http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg06096.html

A digest message is received
Opening the message shows all of the content
After activating the 'reply' function, the reply text box does not
contain the original digest message content

> As you mentioned gmail: Gmail will not show your own messages as it
> will be received by the mailinglist, but only as it leaves gmail,
> similarily gmail doesn't properly quote html-messages when replying in
> text-only mode ("quoting level" gets lost). So what is the exact
> problem?

The problem is that replies to messages cannot be performed directly.
This behaviour does not occur in other mailing lists, e.g. gnuplot.

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