Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:51:43 -0600

Hi Phil,

On 12/17/2015 10:16 AM, Phil Atkin wrote:
> 
> I've been posting a few questions on tech-talk over the past few days as
> I get started on a project.
> I /sometimes/ seem to get an Email when people post replies, but not always.
> When I do receive an Email it's addressed to me and
> [email protected], so I guess in this case I can just 'reply to all'.
> However, if I do not receive an Email I cannot find a way to post a
> response to a message on the list.  I expected to find a 'post reply'
> button on the website, but can't see one.  I've tried several RSS
> readers, but they don't even allow me to see the contents of the
> message, let alone reply.
> 
> I'm running Windows.  What am I missing?  (Please don't simply reply
> "Linux"...)

Tech-talk has always been primarily a mailing list, the RSS feed is
provided as a convenience for those who don't want to receive the volume
of email that tech-talk sends out. The only way to send messages to the
list is via email though, there is no way to reply through the website
since that kind of thing attracts spammers, and we don't have the people
to police messages.

The RSS feed does not include the text of the messages, so it doesn't
matter what reader you use, you have to click through to the website to
read the message. I don't think there is a way to make the MHonarc list
archiving software that I use include the message text in the generated
feed, so that isn't likely to change.

Note that on December 10th the archive and RSS feed stopped publishing
messages, but I only found out and fixed them yesterday. Everything
should now be working though, and all the missing messages should be
present.

I see that you are subscribed to receive a digest of the list, thus you
will only be receiving a bundle of messages approximately once a day.
This does make it hard to reply to the individual messages; the only way
to solve that is to uncheck the 'digest' box in your subscription.
Having your mail program divert all tech-talk messages into a separate
incoming folder might help to keep the list traffic separate from your
other mail.

HTH,

- Andrew

-- 
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has
always got there first, and is waiting for it.
    -- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System