Re: Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?

[Bryce Carson]

On 7/12/23 10:42, Corwin Brust wrote:

> Thanks for your interest and work on this!
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 7:30 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > I'm new to mailing lists, and I'm trying to participate as best I can.
> > > Let me know if some parts of my reply would've been better–formatted in
> > > another way or if I'm not as courteous as I could be.
> > >         
> > I see absolutely no problems with your responses.
> >       
> As someone who's been following the list for some time now (who often
> doubts the value of my own messages sent here):  I think you are doing
> great!
>

I'm fairly confused because I haven't used Email in this way before. I have always used it in a conversational, threaded manner that the Gmail web client has always handled in a particular way (quoting entire threads and only prepending new content.

I like this "literate" style, however, with more quotations and different levels thereof.

On 7/12/23 10:42, Corwin Brust wrote:

> I too will be happy to help.  I suspect my experience level is similar
> to others': I have generally been able to make customize do what I
> wished, but I've struggled to do it and wondered how to make it easier
> to understand/use.
>

I'm not sure if I'm managing my email incorrectly, or using the mailing list in a weird way.

I did accidentally send out multiple copies of draft replies I had saved; I had a rough start with Rmail and my mail server on my web host, but it's working properly now.

At the moment, I'm experiencing an effect where I receive two copies of a message from some respondents, while I only receive one copy of a message from others. In Thunderbird, one message has a button whose label states that I can "Reply [to] all", which is a familiar concept, while the other message has a button for "Reply[ing to the] List".

I'm not sure if the issue arises because of other's email client, the mailing list "echoing" messages it is CC'd in when it is not the recipient, when myself or other respondents are CC'd, etc.

I've also noticed that I have three separate threads of emails related to this subject, some with [External] and others not, and some which are in regard to the external email and others which are only in regard to the original message. It's pretty confusing.

I'm hoping that this email is only going to the list, so that it is public and that subscribers will see it. For parity,  the message is going to emacs-devel, with no CC or BCC, and the subject is regarding the original message I sent to the list. We'll see, and hopefully I'm not making more trouble in my own and other's Inbox.

😕 Mailing lists are new to me, but I'm liking it so far despite confusion and some hurdles!