Re: The List Standard
- From: Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:26:28 -0700
Ted Hilts wrote in Article <461AF001.9020300@xxxxxxxxx> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
This helps a lot but I have a few issues with a couple of the statements.
First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but
simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically
added to the descending list.
I'm not sure what exactly that means, it doesn't make sense.
But have you not in your own email broken
the chain of information because all I get when I read your email is to
see your one extraction and I don't know from that who said what or even
the initial subject content. Not every one has threads. In a thread before
yours this statement was made: ' AFAIK Thunderbird can thread even if the
subject is changed. (It uses the 'In-Reply-To:' header)"
If your mailer breaks threads, you shouldn't use it at all. Period.
There's no excuse for any mailer or newsgroup reader to not support threads
at this point. Even Outlook gets this right barring it's user torquing it
deliberately.
This person seems to imply that normally the subject is the key to
establishing the descending threads. And if Thunderbird for example
utilizes the REPLY TO header then that is at odds with what you seem to be
saying in this guideline. So I am confused on this matter.
Reply To is not set. You should be using Reply to List instead of Reply or
Reply to All when replying.
Also my original subject had [debian-user] as the prefix yet Thunderbird
accepted Re: The list Standard.
Subject prefixes aren't done on this list.
Second: Also, when one person removes content they think is irrelevant but
the original author might think otherwise then how does one find that
original information?
You can always pull it from the original message or the archives.
Third: Altering the original content or injecting statements adds more
confusion than it saves especially if a lot of people are in disagreement
with one another.
Only if you failed English. Top posting is not the norm except among those
who learned to read from Microsoft Outlook.
Anyway, I have in this email not used the REPLY TO key and addressed my
response to you using the original subject in order to see what actually
happens.
Looks like you started a new thread.
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