Please see below ... Joe.

-----Original Message----- From: Frank Heckenbach [SMTP:frank@g-n-u.de] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:39 AM To: gpc@gnu.de Subject: Re: Accessing Mailing List Mail - Newbie Questions

Gloria, Jing wrote:

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I am able to get to the mailing list archives thru my Web browser. I have also registered to subscribe to this mailing list. Pls point me to any documentation on how to use this system.

There's none available. I thought it was more or less slef-explaining.

Or rather, as they say, the best documentation is the source which can be found at http://fjf.gnu.de/crystal/. :-)

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On the Web page, I can read the mail that have been submitted using the link from the GPC documentation.

1. How do I reply to a particular mail? There is no option to reply to the entry that I am reading.

No, I haven't enabled this feature yet. It's mostly a policy decision. We don't want anonymous replies on the list (and it might also create another entry for spammers, though I'm not sure how many spammers try to exploit web interfaces yet). And since the archive (technically) independent of the list distribution, we'd have to do a parallel user management (including passwords) for the archive.

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2. I sometimes see a section in the page that says "Reply to" with a list of previous messages. However, if I click on a mail entry in the list, that particular mail entry is displayed.

Yes, this means as much as "The present mail is a reply to the following mails". If you have a better idea how to name it, let me know.

[Joe da Silva] How about "In reply to" ?

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3. There is a login button at the end of the page for registered Crystal users. Do I need to register before I can reply to the mail in the mailing list?

Registration is currently only used for administrators, but I don't think it would be a problem to make it available for other users as well. I didn't expect anyone to want to reply via this way, so I didn't provide this options yet, but if there's some interest ...

I'd like to know if anyone else is interested, so I can decide if I should do the registrations manually or set up an automated system (if there are many) ...

[Joe da Silva] I for one, only use it for reading messages.

Frank

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