> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:27:13 +0100 > Subject: Re: how to uninstall preload? > Ankur Sinha wrote: > >>> A handy alternative to looking at the yum.log: >>> yum history list >>> then you can see the transactions by date. >>> then: >>> yum history info <transaction id> >>> to get a lot of info on what changed. >>> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory >>> -sv > >> Just thought it was worth mentioning. > > Thanks. > I found that very useful. New thing! > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > And that reply was also missing the in-reply-to header, too. Something > is still wrong. Either gmail being dopey (I wouldn't be surprised), or > you're replying in an odd way. > > When you reply to a post, any post, whether a digest or ordinary > message, the reply should have an in-reply-to header which details the > message id of the message that you replied to. This, along with a > references header (listing the message ids of other messages in the same > thread) are used to tie together all the messages in the same thread. > > Without that header / those headers, your messages aren't listed with > the messages that it belongs with. This makes it hard to follow a > thread. Normally, you can use "next" and "previous" mail buttons on a > client to walk through a thread. But when the threading headers are > removed, your message is lost in a pile of thousands of other unrelated > messages. > > (These headers aren't the introductory texts written into the messages, > just above the quoted sections, they're the mail headers that you can > see if you look at a message raw source.) > > By way of example, look at this month's messages in the archive: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-July/thread.html > > You can see that all the (well formed) replies to a message are threaded > one after another, in their logical sequence. Allowing us to step > through, and follow messages, while trying to figure things out. But > the messages in this (malformed) thread are splattered all over the > place, because the headers essential for threading are destroyed. The > same thing happens in our mail clients, when we go through our locally > held email. This makes it hard to follow a thread, bits of it will go > unseen, because we don't see a reply where we expect to find one. And > if we need to refer to a prior post, it's much harder to find it than it > ought to be. Some people will just give up on trying to help, and > delete problem posts. > > If you can fix that up, you help yourself (and others) immensely when > you participate in mailing lists. Sure, and while replying I wd rather trim myself the not required part. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
