[GeoStL] Re: List weirdness

-
Well, I have to admit that I do NOT know GMail.
It may not be rejecting it because you sent it per se, it could possibly be it is an anti-spam measure. I have quite a few spam messages that apparently I sent to myself. Why do I bother me so much?
And yes, the header says the messages are "from" the originating sender, but the "Reply-to" address and the From IP address, the originating domain, the mailer received from all belong to the free list and not GMail. So all it really has to go on is what is in the "From" text which doesn't really have to contain anything at all resembling a valid name or email address. Oh well. I guess that is a feature that can be good in some circumstances and limiting in others.
As far as putting the replies and such together based on the thread, that is just a sorting technique, or a view option if you will, of the offline mail program. I happen to have my stuff sorted by decreasing date and not grouped into "thread". However, I do have rules to put my geocaching stuff together in a common folder so it isn't intermixed with the other mail I get which I tend to want to look at based on date rather than topic. I only follow two actual news groups, in my personal email, so all the rest of my email doesn't have "threads".
Anyway, thanks for the insight into gmail. As always, technical things can get interesting. 

Andrew Senger wrote:

-
Ah. You don't know Gmail very well. It knows you sent that email --
your email address is in the "From" slot. I assume that at that point,
it compares this email to ones you sent. If it sees it, then it
doesn't show it to you as a new email. If anyone responds to it, their
responses show up in the thread of your original email. Any emails you
reply to that thread fall in line with the thread.

For example, this thread has several replies. I don't see a dozen
different emails in my inbox -- I see one titled "[GeoStL] List
weirdness" . All replies get added to the bottom of the one email.
When I click "Send" on this reply, it will show this message in the
same thread.

I believe freelist has the "Don't send to me" option, but I know mine
is turned on. I see the same thing in all my mailing lists: freelist,
yahoo groups, google groups, and others run from personal sites. Gmail
simply doesn't show your sent emails as new emails coming to you; they
realize you sent it and use the sent mail as the one added into the
thread.

Andrew Senger
asenger@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.yawetag.net
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. He's also
postmaster and probably traffic cop, too. All the jobs for sports
referees are probably filled, though." --Lemel Hebert-Williams



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Mike Lusicic<lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

-
I don't think it is quite like that. Even though you sent it, it is
reflected back from the free list. When it does that, the sender is no
longer you, it is the free list, so Gmail doesn't know any better. However,
there is usually an option on the free list that says whether to send out
messages that you posted to the list. If that option is turned on, then you
won't see the messages you send because it knows who sent the original and
won't send another copy unless you have the option on that tells it to do
so.

 ****************************************
For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes to your account, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> http://www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw 
 Missouri Geocaching land use policies --> www.MoCache.net
 MoGeo Forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php



****************************************
For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes to your account, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> http://www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw 
Missouri Geocaching land use policies --> www.MoCache.net
MoGeo Forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

Other related posts: