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Re: cups problems in bullseye

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On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 6:58:34 AM EST gene heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:05:50 AM EST Andy Smith wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:31:55PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> > > On 2021-12-14, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debian-user, firefox makes
> > > >> it very difficult to put the list address as the To: without starting
> > > >> a
> > > >> new, blank msg. It puts the list in the Cc: box and will not
> > > >> copy/paste it to the To: box w/o stripping at the @.
> > > > 
> > > > What's a PM, and where is it? (There are too many meanings for me
> > > > to guess which one applies here, even while examining Andy's posts.)
> > > 
> > > My guess is personal mail. But who's Andy?
> 
> Andrew Cater
> 
> > I think he's referring to me, since I was one of the first people to
> > respond to his CUPS questions (plus bonus conspiracy theories about
> > Apple), and his response came directly to my personal email not the
> > list.
> > 
> > As usual I struggled to understand what Gene is asking for but I
> > parsed it as something like, "I have no idea how to send email with
> > Firefox such that it goes only to the list, not to you directly, so
> > can you help me by not including your own email address?"
> > 
> > Which still makes very little sense to me, but this is nothing new.
> > 
> > As far as I can see no one needs to change how they are sending
> > email to this list, Gene just needs to learn how to work whatever
> > mail software he is using.
> 
> I'm on kmail now, Which does handle replys properly. But when using FF, in
> order to get the list included, you must reply-all, then clear the to: box
> in order to stop the automatic PM. More useless mouse work.
> 
> And I might add that I only made the apple comment after receiving bounce
correction for typu here
> msgs 3 times from attempting to post to @cups.org. Going to the site that
> originated the bounce msgs, and finding that the cups mailing list was not
> listed there, and the fact that the lists going away had been announced on
> that list months ago, I posted the only theory I had left. If there
> actually still is a cups list, lay it on me. But it hasn't been yet.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> 
> .
And I got my sig fixed.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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 - Louis D. Brandeis
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cups problems in bullseye Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-12-12 20:20 +0100
  Re: cups problems in bullseye Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-12-13 15:40 +0100
  Re: cups problems in bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-14 10:20 +0100
  Re: cups problems in bullseye David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-14 17:10 +0100
    Re: cups problems in bullseye Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-12-14 17:40 +0100
      Re: cups problems in bullseye Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-12-15 09:10 +0100
        Re: cups problems in bullseye Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-12-15 10:40 +0100
        Re: cups problems in bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-12-15 13:00 +0100
          Re: cups problems in bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-12-15 13:40 +0100
            Re: cups problems in bullseye Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-12-15 21:50 +0100
          Re: cups problems in bullseye Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-12-16 05:10 +0100

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