Gmail, mailing lists, and not receiving your own postings

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

I remember that many mailing lists had this feature, that you don't receive copies of your own messages. I think Logic-users and Waldorf-forum used to do that. I liked it, but that was before I used any GUI email clients... I was on Mail for Unix then..;)

now I understand how the lack of threading is something that screws up following busy lists. 

I have no idea how and why google doesn't make this an option...

Kai




On 27.10.2010, at 18:42, Dave S wrote:

> I can't be the only person who utterly hates this Gmail "feature" of not 
> showing you your own postings to mailing lists, and only showing the 
> replies?  This one:
> 
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6588
> 
> It messes up threading a treat, for starters - even more so if you use 
> an external POP3 email client like I do (Thunderbird) and only use the 
> Gmail web interface on occasion.  I never see my own mailing list 
> postings in Thunderbird, because it is not a Gmail inbox and thus not 
> under the control of the "conversations" system.  My list postings never 
> appear here, because Gmail filters them out of my POP3 box.
> 
> I've switched several of my own domains to using Gmail for the email 
> (via Google Apps), as the spam filtering can't be beaten, and the 
> webmail and archiving is useful when I'm not using my main computer.
> 
> But I really wish they'd give us an option to turn this stupid "feature" 
> off because it does not follow the behaviour I have come to expect.  In 
> fact, I know I'm not the only person who dislikes it, because a few 
> other people I've helped set up with Gmail have asked me about it, and 
> it's actually quite embarrassing to have to tell them that this bug is 
> considered a "feature", and that there's no way to change it back to normal.
> 
> For starters, if nobody replies to your message, you have no way of 
> checking it actually arrived on the list unless you go and look at the 
> web archives (which not all lists make available anyway).
> 
> So unless someone replies to this message, I'll be needing to rely on 
> trust that it actually came through.
> 
> Other than that, I really like Gmail, but this bug is so crap I almost 
> think about dumping it and going back to my former setup.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
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