From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 71456 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2016 02:14:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 71439 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2016 02:14:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=greg, tayloth@gmail.com, U*tayloth, taylothgmailcom X-HELO: mail-it0-f41.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f41.google.com) (209.85.214.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:14:04 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f41.google.com with SMTP id f6so2147849ith.0 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:14:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=8G2UW4FoAmDaqCLGyHYPedP9U9teTNNIpaEHgxllBus=; b=PV2dIxjz/46ZXELK3pCe6w7dbWL29Es9BaUfa2aCqxRne5aj5IorHjllRksYJRadXz ZylmQATxA5xvfNPyBIhtvUH7xXVN8HPaR8rtgcbjj2FCMOUSu6nKDR08Qk1lU7UmYUpS 4gmQM8TC13gOz0X978v8rFPW5QzGd79VXm++cZrUkcNqDQJmVjhKEOwO51cYbmJ/fGGz jLra5a3yDt2IVJahivXr5HE6B8UxXvTj1X2pMTEF0YgEjEeow6ARyP86aPfL6QCsae0E +0LrETBIB79gWZSd/7MQdEf/HIB4ni7fECoPCjPf4tZtVQvYU2kABntJCfdHh4jV9UZU Stlw== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkooutih1o2mI4YzE1ybsRunY/oh/xYNdksgMwgYjg0vyIFkftYMAdLQ8324v64avxRYYoaF1ithEtJSiWL9w== X-Received: by 10.36.44.204 with SMTP id i195mr414396iti.12.1470968042192; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:14:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.186.139 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:13:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2e354997-38d0-93b4-9f18-1501419dc846@gmail.com> References: <2e354997-38d0-93b4-9f18-1501419dc846@gmail.com> From: Greg Freemyer Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 04:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00206.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > Thank you for responding to my post. I think I asked the wrong question. > What I really want to know is how to use this mailing list and others like > it. I'm new at this, and can't find any instructions anywhere. Such lists > must have become part of the culture, and I must have missed school that > day. I'm able to create a post, but don't know how to reply to one. > Somehow I got the feeling that I should only reply to the mailing list, > rather than directly to the person (like you) who responded to my post. I > don't get responses via email, and don't even know if I should. Instead, I > check for them periodically on the web page for the mailing list archive. > If I find a response, I don't know the right way to reply. > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Are you subscribed such that you get each email as a separate email? If so, all you have to do is reply. Reply all s normally fine, but I've been on lists with various rules (netiquettes). I suspect your issue is how you subscribed to the list. Greg -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple