Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600
Ted Hilts <thilts33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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. 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

On 09.04.07 21:10, David E. Fox wrote:
Ted - please wrap your lines at < 72 characters. It'll make your posts
easier to read and reply to.

I wonder why does Thunderbird not to wrap lined, if is uses format=flowed
messages (which it does). It's probably bug in thunderbird, RFC 2646
(section 4.1) tells that text should be wrapped...

(i re-wrapped Ted's text myself)

Most (sane) mailers track by something called Reference Threading - so
that a subject with the added text [debian-user] will still be able to
be seen as part of the thread.

If you are talking about merging messages with same subject (with additional
Re:) to one thread, I have bad experience with it so I've turned this off.

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.

Shouldn't happen much. For threads where there is a lot of disagreement
(see the subjects "sponge burning" for instance) people haven't been
altering the original content. That would be disastrous, and really
open one up for a flame fest ;(.

I agree with this. Stripping irelevant parts of original content is OK and
case much less of confusion than reading long pages of irelevant text and
searching for relevant parts there.
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