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From:

Zed A. Shaw

Date:

2009-07-26 @ 21:34

Hi Folks,

Just did a drop of librelist again, touching up a few more things.  This
release should work more correctly (thanks to Eric Wong) wrt message-ids
and dates.  Now librelist will keep all the IDs that it's given so that
your threads and such work correctly.

I just did a test in several clients, and they work like before, but now
gmail doesn't reflect back your email like it used to.

Also, the date is now given in the archives, although it's the original
message date.  I may look at adding a header to indicate when the
message was archived in UTC time.

Another feature I added is a little error message that tells you when
you get the mailing list name format wrong.  If you send to:

test-list@librelist.com

You'll get to see it.  Please let me know if the tone is conversational
rather than RTFM.

Thanks!

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/

"Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
> Another feature I added is a little error message that tells you when
> you get the mailing list name format wrong.  If you send to:
> 
> test-list@librelist.com
> 
> You'll get to see it.  Please let me know if the tone is conversational
> rather than RTFM.

Seems alright to me, except I'm turned off by CAPS LOCK in general.  I
would've used capitalization with underlining, Markdown-style.

-- 
Eric Wong

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:58:23PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
> > You'll get to see it.  Please let me know if the tone is conversational
> > rather than RTFM.
> 
> Seems alright to me, except I'm turned off by CAPS LOCK in general.  I
> would've used capitalization with underlining, Markdown-style.

Yep, it's kind of intended to make you read it.  The pattern I'm finding
works best for these informational emails is:

* A short sentence or two.
* Email addresses or links on their own line.
* CAPS HEADERS BETWEEN STUFF TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
* A conversational voice as if it's a person who wrote it.

So far that's been the best at getting people to read and understand the
emails.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/